[Cryptography] We've been doing security all wrong

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat Jul 4 08:05:03 EDT 2026


>From a recent post at the DailyWTF,
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/the-most-dangerous-game, edited down a bit:

  net_socks_buffer_size = 4096;    //I wouldn't change this if I were you
  net_udp_force_specified_size = false;	//overrides what the OS recommends, could disable
                                   // networking and maybe crash the game? who knows
  net_max_message_size  = 32768;   //MUST be power of 2, don't be a dick and make it too big

To which we could add:

  net_encryption_key = "rumpelstiltskin" //don't be a dick and use this to break our security

That's so much easier than using all that crypto stuff.

Peter.


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