▲ 62 ▼ Indie developer has a plan to keep parts of his game secret, even from data-miners (www.gamefile.news) submitted 2 years ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml 7 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] RiQuY@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (3 children) Server-side encryption maybe? permalink fedilink source hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] 4am@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (2 children) The stored encryption keys are assembled by finding secrets in the game. The hope is that people will find the secrets by playing the game faster than it can be assembled via data mining, thus players actually playing will do the discovery. Hopefully it works; once someone does it the cat’s out of the bag anyway; the attempt here is to make it genuine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] themusicman@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Depending on how the secrets are conveyed to the player, they may be completely impossible to data mine permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago I suspect a sufficiently well trained reverse engineer could figure out how the keys are being generated, and crack it. It will surely be interesting one way or another. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] 4am@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (2 children) The stored encryption keys are assembled by finding secrets in the game. The hope is that people will find the secrets by playing the game faster than it can be assembled via data mining, thus players actually playing will do the discovery. Hopefully it works; once someone does it the cat’s out of the bag anyway; the attempt here is to make it genuine. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] themusicman@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Depending on how the secrets are conveyed to the player, they may be completely impossible to data mine permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago I suspect a sufficiently well trained reverse engineer could figure out how the keys are being generated, and crack it. It will surely be interesting one way or another. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (1 child) Depending on how the secrets are conveyed to the player, they may be completely impossible to data mine permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago I suspect a sufficiently well trained reverse engineer could figure out how the keys are being generated, and crack it. It will surely be interesting one way or another. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 point 2 years ago I suspect a sufficiently well trained reverse engineer could figure out how the keys are being generated, and crack it. It will surely be interesting one way or another. permalink fedilink source parent