Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Encrypting UDP Game Traffic

not only encryption protects your players from classical attacks, it also protects your games against cheaters too.
As a side bonus, with proper encryption you can be sure that network errors which corrupt your packets are not going undetected (and with unencrypted UDP those 16-bit UDP checksums can detect only one out of 60’000 in-transit corruptions, which means that with all those millions of packets you’re sending out each second, some corruptions WILL go undetected, causing all kinds of trouble).

http://ithare.com/udp-for-games-security-encryption-and-ddos-protection/


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