Ultimate Map Protect0r In The Making!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://forums.umsmaps.com/viewtopic....er=asc&start=0

Extrarius from UMSMaps.com is making an ultimate map protector! It's going to whoop-*** and beat all other protectors!
RELEASE DATE: NEXT WEEK

Information: (as said by Extrarius in various posts)
- Uses the same rename trick as Zepir's
- Stores a password-encrypted backup into the map you want to protect (uses the MD5 & the Rijndael encryption algorithm and takes less than 2k, look below)
- The password you use to encrypt your map can get expanded to 128 bits with the MD5 algorithm, which means there are 340282366920938463463374607431768211456 possible passwords to try if you want to decrypt it
- If a computer tries to decrypt the backup 1000 passwords per second, it will take over 10^28 years to try them all (= 10 with 28 zeroes behind it)
- Going to use the Rijndael algorithm that the government uses to encrypt data so it will be pretty hard to crack without knowing the password
- If you don't specify a password, it won't store a backup into the map.
- Maps can either grow or shrink by only about 2k when protecting them. If they grow, the map will shrink again after unprotecting, but if they shrink, they stay a little smaller than the original after unrprotecting.
- Program will be compiled with Visual Studio .NET Academic (basically Professional, but cheaper & for students only), written in unmanaged C++
- Uses ShaowFlare's MPQ DLL
- Uses 3rd party code for MD5 password hashing and AES(Rijndael) encryption

Cool

(and next time, put some more exclamation marks in you thread subject) j/k

I can fix that for you to have 6.02*10^23 !
Personally I don't really care about protection much any more.

Yeah, I guess that topic around here wore out after a while. Not many maps really need it, and if they do, they just do. Not much complaining around here about stolen maps...

Well it would help to reduce the amount of hero arena maps. And just about every other spam map out there.

Isn't it enough with one map protector? Whats the purpose of having top secret maps nobody can hack? If they are protected it's usually for some specifc reason like custom skins/models or just integrity, so THEN YOU DONT TRY TO HACK THEM

Erm can I download it now?

Sopho, you can, it's been out for awhile I hear.

However, people seeking to unprotect don't care about this backup...as till now they have worked their ways by editing the raw format of the map (JASS, w3u/w3a, etc), instead of making it completely openable in WE. So this backup that you're storing in your map is 100% un-needed if you just backup your map yourself in another name, and thus, you can be saving up to 50-100 kb's, as that's what normal protectors do (delete these un-needed files).

However, this is cool for people that want to ...erhm?...password protect their map and share the password with friends.

Cubasis

I'd personally like a protector made so that once you protect a map, it can never be unprotected.

Maybe impossible, but thats my ideal protector.

HeavyLocker does that. However, people that hack maps properly don't need to unprotect it, as most of what they want to do is easily doable by editing the war3map.j file. They rarely wanna change the terrain or sumtin. And the war3map.j file is simply in JASS, obfuscated at best. And there is no way to completely protect that file from view.

Cubasis

Sigh, Map Protection has always bothered me. The B.net maps are the ONLY ones that should be allowed to be protected. These forum maps. Nuh uh. You have to learn things, you won't want to learn anything from a crusty B.net map anways.

NOTE: Cubasis, you missed a ! in your thread name.

Cubasis didn't start this 2 years old thread, let me close it first.

2 years?...