[quake3] non-cheatable game

[Mariano Ceccato]

Dear Diego,

thanks for the reference. Do you know this person? could you provide his 
current e-mail so I can contact him, in case?

Thanks a lot,
Mariano Ceccato



Diego de Estrada wrote:
> 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
>> web: http://sra.itc.it/people/ceccato
>> tel: +39.0461.314.577
>> fax: +39.0461.314.591
>>
>>
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>> ITC -> dall'1 marzo 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler
>> ITC -> since 1 March 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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>>


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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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ITC -> dall'1 marzo 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler
ITC -> since 1 March 2007 Fondazione Bruno Kessler
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