Re: Games (faking scores and things btw)

[raster redhat com]

On 26 Jan, Horacio J. Peña shouted:
->  ¡Hi!
->  
->  Having worked in session-management support for same-gnome i'm facing
->  a pretty problem. It's the same problem all saved games have. The users
->  can edit them. So anyone can have 100,000 points (5 times the best score
->  possible...) or more very easily...
->  
->  What can we do? I think that we've four options:
->  
->  1. Ignore the issue. But if we ignore it why take the effort of checking that
->  the program that wants writing into the score-log is a real gnome program?
->  2. Have a wrapper (suid games) that writes the saved games. But, more SUID 
->  things?
->  3. Avoid saved games. But we would be lossing funcionality.
->  4. Educate users. (OK, we have 3 options :-)

5. Use some sufficiently obscure format for the save file that only
Linus, or you, the author could manage to disentangel the obfusicated
code to write and read the files and thus reverse-engineer the file.
The format is jumbled and meningless if opend in binary or text
editors....:)

->  I would like very much reading your opinions...
->  
->  					HoraPe
->  
->  

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