Proposal: Add obfuscation / Signature Algorithm on the Client part to prevent easy spoofing

[YAYLOLDEV]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Problem: Players can really easily spoof their mods due to ClientId not being obfuscated and just simply lacking any form of prevention.

Describe the solution you'd like
Adding a Signature algorithm and obfuscating the code will make spoofing a bit harder.

[YAYLOLDEV]

I know security though obscurity is a bad practice, but letting this just essentially being (nearly) open source defeats the point of using this against cheat mods, reason being they can make a "bypass" in under 5 minutes.

[catfromplan9]

I know security though obscurity is a bad practice, but letting this just essentially being open source defeats the point of using this against cheat mods, reason being they can make a "bypass" in under 5 minutes.

When referring to free software, I would ask that you do not use the term "open source". This term is harmful to free software, see: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

[YAYLOLDEV]

I know security though obscurity is a bad practice, but letting this just essentially being open source defeats the point of using this against cheat mods, reason being they can make a "bypass" in under 5 minutes.

When referring to free software, I would ask that you do not use the term "open source". This term is harmful to free software, see: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

sure i meant nearly open source as this is compiled java

[catfromplan9]

I know security though obscurity is a bad practice, but letting this just essentially being open source defeats the point of using this against cheat mods, reason being they can make a "bypass" in under 5 minutes.

When referring to free software, I would ask that you do not use the term "open source". This term is harmful to free software, see: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html

sure i meant nearly open source as this is compiled java

Did you read what I said? Using the term "open source", in any context, is harmful to free software. You can read the linked blog post if you would like more information.

[YAYLOLDEV]

I know, still compiled java code is very closley to the source code, "open source" may not be the right term, but the source code is nearly open.

[catfromplan9]

The term you are looking for is "source available"

[YAYLOLDEV]

"source available"
yep thanks

[gkursi]

The term you are looking for is "source available"

i doubt compiled code counts as source available, even if its easily reversible