If you've been around lately you may have noticed a lot of threads discussing password protection and an open source code release for Zelda Classic and its editor ZQuest.
This poll is to try and collect the raw numbers about passwords and their use in QST files.
Here are the facts:
1.) There IS a program available (somewhere) that lets anyone replace the hash of a password with the hash of a blank in the quest file, allowing anyone to open even protected quests.
2.) All of ZQuest's developers are on board with the removal of the password system, as it will streamline the release of the source code.
3.) There is an exploit that allows users to indirectly edit quests by abusing file names.
4.) AGN staff took the position that password protection was made available and should remain for the benefit of the community. However, due to 1 and 3 above, the only real protection for quests and their content is our connection as a community and our ability to shun users that misappropriate the work of others.
So... please select one of the poll options (if you use ZQuest to make custom games). You may elaborate in a reply if you so choose.
EDIT:
I was under the impression that we had agreed that password protection would stay as a service to the community (as there was already the expectation that it was there). In the creation of this thread I may have paraphrased some of the issues incorrectly because I don't really understand file encryption, but it was never my intent to misinform anyone.
SUCCESSOR knows what's going on, though, so you should give his words more weight than mine.