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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]
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Great find! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]
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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.
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Yep, this is a hopeless method of trying to protect stuff. If your friend at work thinks that software can be protected from snoopers, then I'm afraid he's wrong. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]
If he were correct, then he could make himself a billionaire overnight because the same method could be used to protect software from crackers and to this date no such "uncrackable" software exists.
Juk [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]