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Indie developer has a plan to keep parts of his game secret, even from data-miners (www.gamefile.news)

submitted 7 months ago by ylai@lemmy.ml to c/gamedev@programming.dev

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[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 17 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Basso is at least confident that data miners can’t brute force their way to discovering his encrypted secrets. He’s using industry-standard AES encryption. ”It's pretty secure, unless we get quantum computers or there's some giant vulnerability,” he said.

It's a fun idea, I guess, but I don't know how happy anti-virus kinda services are with having loads of very encrypted and obscured blocks of data.

It's a bit of a "trust me bro" situation where he claims he's just hiding secret levels and stuff - and isn't also secretly side-loading malware or something like that

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 19 points 7 months ago (13 children)

Anti viruses won't care as it won't be injecting executable code. But the whole idea won't work. To decrypt AES you need some sort of a secret key or certificate. So the game will have to have it bundled. Thus anyone with enough skill will be able to extract such key or certificate and decode resources themselves. Encryption will not provide any protection.

[–] nik9000@programming.dev 3 points 7 months ago

It sort of looked like you'd construct the key by input. Like an old school password entry screen or something. I wonder if you could correct horse battery stapler it enough to have a respectable key length.

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