Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 21:03:54 09/08/04
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On September 08, 2004 at 22:43:11, Will Singleton wrote: >On September 08, 2004 at 22:09:37, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 08, 2004 at 20:56:26, Will Singleton wrote: >> >>>On September 08, 2004 at 20:03:41, Joshua Shriver wrote: >>> >>>>http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/08/2038258 >>> >>>Yow. They tell how to hack the timestamp program, then say there's no good way >>>to defeat the hack. Interesting, to say the least. >> >> >>This is all old news. There has been a way to exploit timestamp that is >>well-known for at least a couple of years. >> >>yawn... > >Pardon me while I wake up. :) I assume then that Darooha & Company has ignored >the issue, or that it cannot be easily addressed. Which is it? In any case, it >means that serious online play at ICC is compromised, and it follows that all >CCT tourneys are suspect, as well as ICC regular tourneys, other events, and >their rating system in general. > >That's not a yawn. It's a yawn in that the weaknesses have been known for a long time. There are solutions to much of the problem, using the sort of challenge-response stuff used in ssh (secure shell) access. But artificial lag is simply impossible to get rid of...
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