Re: Re: New Press Variant?

Nick Nimchuk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.games.diplomacy.judge.dp.discussion
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Personally, I would establish a cryptographic key in private press, and then
use that to broadcast encoded messages or send them through a third party.
Or, in the second case, at least an encrypted signature that could guarantee
that the message wasn't... massaged... in transit.

-Nick

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:09 AM, Millis Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 17:58:26 -0700, Manus Hand wrote
> > Mike brings up a good point -- if I were Russia, I would use the one
> > turn I had with Turkey to establish a code only we two knew, and then
> > when communication was shut between us, use BROADCAST to communicate.
> > HAMMER_ (and TOUCH_) probably should forbid broadcast press, huh?
> >
> > Manus
> >
> Not necessarily: no reason why Broadcast press shouldn't always work and
> partial press only restricted by default but, if you wanted, you could turn
> off broadcast press too as a separate option.
>
> It does sound an interesting option indeed to play a game with - just not
> sure
> that the name is so good, maybe something like NO_NEIGHBOUR_PRESS describes
> it
> better as a flag name?
>
> BR,
> Millis
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