Re: [pygame] Game server login encryption

["Bob Ippolito" <bob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Read up on "Challenge-response authentication". You can implement it
really easily with the hmac module. This should be very easy to
implement and sufficiently secure (if implemented correctly).

-bob

On 12/24/06, Adam Bark <adam.jtm30@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm currently writing a networked game and I'm about to write a proper
> implementation of the logon server. I would prefer to have some sort of
> encryption but would like some opinions. The way I see it either I can take
> a hash of some data eg. username, password, port and ip and check the hash
> against one generated on the server. Alternatively I could use twisted conch
> tunneling through ssh. I anybody has any opinions on either of these ideas
> or anything else that might be useful, fire away.
> Cheers,
> Adam.