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Client: Installer & Auto-Updates
February 28, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Pretty much whatever-we-do, there will be a certain percentage of players which are trying to run an obsolete version of the Client forever-and-ever
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It is very important to keep updater transaction-oriented.
Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VIOn.ProgrammingTips and Tricks
Read moreSome Big-Os are Bigger Than Others
February 21, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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Strictly speaking, for real-world computers, every algorithm which completes in a finite time can be said to be O(1)
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now the difference because of unfortunate ‘jumps’ over (uncached at the time) memory can lead to a 100x+ (!) performance difference. However, it is still O(1) and is rarely taken into account during performance analysis
Filed under: On.ProgrammingOptimizations
Read moreAdvocating "Obscurity Pockets" Part III. Code Obfuscation Basics.
February 14, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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C++ is by far the king when it comes to producing obfuscated code.
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inlines and C++ templates are helping to obfuscate things very efficiently
Filed under: On.SecurityResearch
Read moreAdvocating “Obscurity Pockets” as a Complement to Security. Part II. Deployment Scenarios, More Crypto-Primitives, and Obscurity-Pocket-As-Security
February 7, 2017 by • “No Bugs” Bunny
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In other words – such an Obscured RNG would protect us from Debian RNG disaster(!)
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such a protocol (if properly deployed on the Server Side) – would defeat Heartbleed too (even if all the details of the Client are known)
Filed under: On.SecurityResearch
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