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Old 11-21-2007, 09:28 PM
_dave_ _dave_ is offline
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Default Re: Programmers, help fight the UIGEA from the bottom up.

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Turns out someone's already thought about shuffling and dealing without a trusted third party using various encryption schemes:
http://www.nongnu.org/libtmcg/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_poker

No need to worry about people decompiling the software!

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Oh my, FANTASTIC post Nortonesque [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Going to have to spend some time reading over these!

Tuff:

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You won't be able to decompile or modify the software at all, or run a debugger in parallel etc. If you try it, the server won't deal. Plus, your buddies get a message about what you are trying. Next comes the knee breaking.


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No.

Nonononononono!

Attempting to prevent people using decompilers etc. is futile, and misguided.

The software must be robust enough that use of a debugger is of no advantage to the user. Security by obscurity =/= security, to trot out an old (but very true) cliche.

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(and it does NOT have to be open-source)


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But it *should* be, otherwise how would anyone be able to trust it?
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