On Monday,  7. May 2001 00:48, Andreas Beckermann wrote:
> On Monday 07 May 2001 00:04, George Staikos wrote:
> >     My plan doesn't not involve encrypting any files.  It involves us=
ing
> > encryption as a form of authentication so that only the game itself m=
ay
> > call the suid/sgid helper app to update the highscores file.
>
> So I probably misunderstood you.

George _never_ said he wanted to use encryption for the files. He said in=
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first post that he found a way of securely _communicatin_ with an externa=
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program using encryption.

> If yes - please do so. I obviously can't convince you that it's a bad i=
dea.
> Please make it an own package in kdegames, so that a maintainer for thi=
s
> one can easily be added (who can be blamed for possible bugs).

You said that you're afraid a misbehaving setgid program could damage=20
kdegames reputation, so why include it in kdegames?

It should be a completely independend program, like a system tool. We jus=
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need a configure switch to enable global highscore usages and this has to=
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test for the programs presence.
Additonally someone puts a note into the kdegames readme or=20
whatever-info-file that exists which proudly tells the user that khighsco=
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is able to utilize the famous globalscore programm o achieve system wide=20
shared highscore tables :)
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Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@gmx.at>
Developer at the Kmud Project http://www.kmud.de/
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