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CD Key Question
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 3:08 pm
by Keiser
Would it be possible to steal someones cd-key by banning them and then going into the ban directory on your computer and decoding the cd key hash? This kind of makes me worry that anyone can get your cd key from banning even though its heavily encrypted.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 6:21 pm
by FUZZ
What language are you speaking!?! that aint a dis, I just dont know what your talking about
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2004 7:21 pm
by Keiser
bah I dont eve nfeel like explaining encryption and hash.
Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 8:00 am
by kaptainkommie
It's more than likely a one-way encryption/hash method such as md5. Of course anything that's encrypted can be decrypted provided you have to resources, knowledge, time and computing power to do so.
Halo appears to connect to a Gamespy master server to check your cdkey for validity, Gamespy could either then return a simple yes or no answer OR it could return another sort of hash, and perhaps that hash (possibly your digital product id?) is used for banning instead of the cdkey.