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<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#cp,net">claw#cp,net</A>></LI>
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On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 05:02:59 -0500 (EST)
Rahul Sinha <rsinha#glue,umd.edu> wrote:
> ummm a peer-to-peer setup is not safe for any centralized
> game...
This is not strictly true. Maintaining security (logical, data, or
operational) for any sort of distributed process where the links
_and_ the leaf nodes are untrustworthy is certainly NOT easy, but is
also, by definition, not impossible. The military have partially
confronted this in their inimitable fashion in DIS (Distributed
Interactive Simulations). You can find some discussion of the area
in the thread rooted at:
<A HREF="http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/thread.html#00855">http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/thread.html#00855</A>
<A HREF="http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00855.html">http://www.kanga.nu/archives/MUD-Dev-L/1998Q4/msg00855.html</A>
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00757" HREF="msg00757.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00745" HREF="msg00745.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
Matthew Mihaly <a href="mailto:diablo#best,com">diablo#best,com</a>, Thu 23 Dec 1999, 00:45 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00726" HREF="msg00726.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00728" HREF="msg00728.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Collecting ideas for a MUD server... (fwd)</A></strong>,
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