Re: [Quake-devel] encrypted confirmation

[J. W. <jimbo1@u.washington.edu>]

On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Hollis R Blanchard wrote:

> Who wants to be managing an account when they could be playing Quake?
> 
> Account management and password protection in the Real World is a large (and
> boring) problem. In the Quake world, (as noted before) email addresses are
> effectively infinate, and what other mechanism for identification is there?*
> (And the thought of setting up a massive encryption scheme so crackers don't
> steal your QW identity seems a little bit... odd.)

These are some of the reasons a central player auth was removed from the
original quakeworld, which is something people might want to look into
before reimplementing it again.

jim