TLS Security Layer and Efficient Dedicated Server


Just made a couple major improvements:

  1. Secure network layer using TLS working
  2. Super efficient dedicated servers working

TLS security makes it impossible for people to cheat on the network layer.  Now, all network packets are encrypted and checked for source.  So, people can't say they killed you and stuff by modifying the network packets.  This is my first step towards reducing cheating in Netblast.

The efficient dedicated servers allow me to run many official dedicated servers on one Amazon AWS server.  So, I can probably run like 10 or more official dedicated servers for us as we get more people playing.

Also, i can no longer distribute the dedicated server code which is why i wanted to make them more efficient to run them myself.  I can't do this because then i would have to also distribute the private key rendering TLS useless.  Furthermore, people cheating could modify the dedicated server to allow cheats.  So, I will be hosting all of the dedicated servers for us in a cost effective manner.

So the TLS and efficient dedicated servers work together to begin to eliminate any kind of cheating potential in Netblast.

Files

Netblast.zip 62 MB
Jul 27, 2018

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