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Stars Encryption Sun, 18 March 2007 09:52 Go to previous message
PaulCr

 
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Stars encryption[ 26 votes ]
1. Publish details if found 14 / 54%
2. Don't publish details 12 / 46%

I've been able to find most of the locations for the race settings in the .hst file which for anybody interested I've included on my site that I've previously posted.
During the investigation I've become convinced that the encryption should be easily breakable and have begun taking a look.
After a preliminary look I am convinced that I will be able to work out the values of the locations I've already documented and depending on the length of the sequence used will probably be able to break it completely.
I'm posing the question now of whether I should publish details or not if I do break the encryption.
You would need access to the files to use it and therefore the host is the only viable person who could use it for cheating, the host needs to be trusted anyway since he can already cheat if he wanted.
Publishing would mean that all the file formats could be documented and would be likely to lead to new utilities coming out.

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