[quake3] non-cheatable game

[Diego de Estrada]

2) Read van Waveren master thesis:
http://www.kbs.twi.tudelft.nl/Publications/MSc/2001-VanWaveren-MSc.html

3) Here: http://ioquake3.org/?page=get

The current purpose of the ioquake3 project is to keep network
compatability with Id's binaries, maybe not a very clever idea taking
into account that the design is ten years old (although novel for that
time).

Maybe, IMHO, it's time to redesign some of the network code, and
implement it in SDL_net.

On 5/11/07, Mariano Ceccato <ceccato at itc.it> wrote:
> 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,
>
> --
> Mariano Ceccato
> ITC-Irst
> Via Sommarive, 18
> I-38050 Povo, Trento - ITALY
> email: ceccato at itc.it
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