Hi Paul! The file is not touched but the communication channel is encrypted. All communications between SERP and SERP server are encrypted + we use additionally TLS 1.2 protocol. Hope this helps to answer your question.
I would like to know what BackgroundHALShouldPause does, and how to use it. While it's listed in the HAL Primitives report, it is not used in source code and it doesn't appear in the LMS HAL...