Re: computer-go: Authenticating the identity of a remote go-playing computer program

[Robert Jasiek <jasiek@xxxxxxxx>]

Don Dailey wrote:
>>
 The only reason  a checkum like md5 is  considered "secure" is because
 it has been desgined in such as way as to  make it extremely difficult
 to  construct another message  with the same  checksum (even though an
 infinite number of them exists!)  For all  practical purposes, this is
 secure   enough,  because I  can  be  certain, with  a   high level of
 confidence,  that you  cannot write a  program that  has the  same md5
 checksum as mine.
<<

What kind of security are you talking about? The major weakness of any
code is illegal human access to its theory or keywords.

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robert jasiek