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kzar · Newbie Joined: Jun 18 2006 Posts: 3 Offline

Hi, sorry if this is a commonly asked question but I couldn't find out by searching. I have been reading about continuum and asss and subspace and pritik etc recently and if I understand right at the moment all that protects subspace from cheaters is the encryption in continuum which is hidden behind some clever anti debugger tricks. My question is, if continuum connects to asss then surely asss must use the same encryption, but asss is opensource so how is the encryption protected? Thanks

CypherJF · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 2:05 pm Post subject:

The encryption routines are closed-source libraries which are built/compiled by grelminar and distributed in the distribution.

I, personally, have wondered how long it'd take someone to use reflection to utilize these libraries in their own applications.
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kzar · Newbie Joined: Jun 18 2006 Posts: 3 Offline

Thanks for the reply. Sorry if it sounds stupid but what do you meen by

"to use reflection to utilize these libraries in their own applications."

do you meen look at how asss uses the library and then use them in your own in the same way?

Thanks

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:41 pm Post subject:

CypherJF · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

Eh, I'm sure there are people out there willing to give it a shot.

kzar · Newbie Joined: Jun 18 2006 Posts: 3 Offline

Dr Brain · Posted: Sun Jun 18, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

Smong · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 7:14 am Post subject:

If you want each player to use a different key for encryption, you need to know which player you are dealing with. So the player is given to you when you encrypt/decrypt.