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Re: Misc notes/thoughts.



On Mon, 11 Dec 1995, Tadah wrote:

> ATTENTION all programmers..  Idea here.. :>
> Why not have encrypted RSA player files kept on the players computer?
> Netrek does something like this with its clients so that people can't mod 
> clients and cheat.  Why not do this with player files, and to what 
> advantage?  It would be great to be able to move your player to other 
> servers should a server go down, become slow, or whatever.  No?
> Well, anyway.  Just an idea.. :>

No no no... It would be too easy to cheat. Imagine : I install a server 
on my machine, and create a map with free armor/spells/money/etc. I get a 
munchkin character, then move it to the ultra-strict server where you 
play, and bash everythng about... 


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