<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39957 >
Jason Dorje Short wrote: > <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=39957 > > > William Allen Simpson wrote: > >> Madeline, where is your code? The AUTH code here is cryptologically >> unsound. Did the AUTH code come from someplace special? Is there any >> reason to be backward compatible with anything? > > The auth code was written by mike or per as a quick fix to get the > client to auto-launch the server. There is little need for it to be > backward-compatible even among the same version of freeciv I think. > > And, how is it cryptologically unsound? My mistake, I misread - the above reply is about the HACK test code, not the auth code. About the auth code, I don't see why it's needed outside of pubserver. If pubserver is replaced universally with GGZ then it could be dropped completely. -jason _______________________________________________ Freeciv-dev mailing list Freeciv-dev@gna.org https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/freeciv-dev
