Eternal Zunder

[Isana]

Actually, I think the community has lightened up a bit the last few years. Who knows, maybe in a few more years no one will really care anymore.

There will always be someone who cares, but yes perhaps we will see more people grow to simply not care whether or not someone can edit their quests in the near future. The option to protect one's quest should definitely always be available though. If Zelda Classic were re-written perhaps a more viable solution for securing quests could be implemented.

As it is now, there's not really much else you can do since Zelda Classic itself needs to be able to read quests. I'd like to see quests compiled down to some form of bytecode which could be embedded in a 'runner' of sorts, producing an executable (possibly along with some necessary libraries) which could then be distributed as opposed to quest files. This would be possible with a complete rewrite of Zelda Classic. Something along those lines would be quite a bit more secure.

Anyway, I patched the latest build of ZQuest for Linux... I'm done now, I promise. xD

I see a lot of arguments over the risks as well as the uses but it really just boils down to the fact that this is a community. If the majority of the community really feels strongly about something then decisions will likely follow. It is looking like we will probably not be allowing software that bypasses or removes passwords on these forums. Nothing official has been decided yet that is just my guess. As Gleeok has said we can expect a lot more of this stuff when the source is out so we might as well reach a decision now. Obviously no one can stop you from distributing but links to it probably won't be allowed here at AGN. Of course we aren't going to stop you from talking about it. That's not how we do.

A reminder for the millionth time: Even though these examples don't pull passwords, your passwords on quests are not safe. Do not use account passwords to lock your quest.

Nothing wrong with prohibiting users from distributing such tools here. Glad to see that you're not simply going to censor discussions of this type, but I personally feel that there are cases in which it would be perfectly reasonable to take action. Example: Someone describes, in detail, how to bypass or remove passwords.

Are the password hashes not salted? Shouldn't be too big of a concern as long as they're not straight MD5 hashes, but SHA-1 hashes are still arguably more secure. n_n