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[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 17 points 1 year 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 1 year 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.

[–] pantyhosewimp@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the key to unlock them will not also be buried in the code.

“You have to sort of input it through playing the game, to the credits and some later sections,” he said.

With luck, that means no one will crack it until someone plays to the point of figuring it all out.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

As I said, I bet everything will be decrypted within an hour of release.

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