[gmpi] Re: 3.18 Copy Protection

On Tuesday, September 21, 2004 12:10 AM [GMT+1=CET],
Tim Hockin <xxxthockin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 06:00:26PM -0400, Ron Kuper wrote:

>> Otherwise I'd least want something where the host can identify itself to
>> the plugin, in some "secure" way, so the plugin can know whether or not
>> it's allowed to run.
>
> Define secure?  The plugins are the thing we want to protect, so any
> host-centric security is moot.  A host can be faked.

Everything can be faked...
But I agree with Ron up to the point that being able to identify a host
program should be possible. We have a way to identify a plugin, so that
should also hold for the hosts (even it it was only to give plugins a chance
to avoid problems with some buggy hosts, although that would get us into the
"works in host A, not in host B" mess again...) To what degree this should
be protected or not though... I have no idea.
Koen


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