non-cheatable game

[Mariano Ceccato]

Hello everybody,

I'm an Italian researcher working in the field of software analysis and 
evolution.

The topic my group is currently working on is a related to software 
security on network applications. Out goal is to identify which parts of 
an existing software system can be tampered with by a malicious user. We 
are also investigating a solution based on source-code automatic 
transformation to change all the not-safe parts into tamper-proof code.

In case of a network game, such as Quake, we would like to modify the 
game code in such a way that it is not longer possible by a malicious 
player to install cheat-patch on the system in order to gain an 
advantage over the other players.

Of course my purpose is to write good research publications but, I 
think, I can also contribute a lot to this project in case I will be 
able to provide you non-cheatable game source code.

To do that, I would need to know
1) the known cheat-patches that unfair players use,
2) kind of game design (if any)
3) game (and game-server) code
Could someone help me in find out any of those things?

Regards,

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Mariano Ceccato
ITC-Irst
Via Sommarive, 18
I-38050 Povo, Trento - ITALY
email: ceccato at itc.it
web: http://sra.itc.it/people/ceccato
tel: +39.0461.314.577
fax: +39.0461.314.591


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