[quake3] [PATCH] cl_guid

Ludwig Nussel ludwig.nussel at suse.de
Mon Apr 10 19:14:45 EDT 2006


Tony J. White wrote:
> [...]
> On startup, the client engine looks for a file called qkey.  If it does
> not exist, 2KiB worth of random binary data is inserted into the qkey file.
> A MD5 digest is then made of the qkey file and it is inserted into the
> cl_guid cvar.  This is essentially the same way it works on ET except that
> pb uses some other secret voodoo to hide how it comes up with the MD5 digest. 

What about directly storing the hex representation of 16 random
bytes in the cvar instead of hashing 2k using MD5?

cu
Ludwig

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