Re: Re: New Press Variant?

Okay, based on this discussion, what I have done (and it looks like TOUCH_
is also coded this way too) is make it so that broadcasts are FORBIDDEN by
default in HAMMER_PRESS, unless the GM also adds RULE PUBLIC_PRESS, which
will then allow them.

I did like the idea of a GM adding YELLOW_PRESS too (so that all broadcasts
are sent anonymously), or, of course, allowing FAKE_PRESS would be fun.
[Hmm....this brings me to something I should check into -- if FAKE_PRESS is
on, does it (because it should) properly limit who you can pretend to be to
only those people who can talk to the addressees?  I bet I will need to do
some coding to make FAKE_PRESS work in this way with TOUCH_ and HAMMER_].

With broadcasts forbidden, I think the cryptographic key problem is at least
a little bit resolved, because I don't know about you, but I'm not going to
forward a message from one power to another without me being able to read it
along the way -- I don't care how close a trio we might be, if I get
something in code from one player and asked to forward it to another, I'm
just going to hit Delete, and anyone who doesn't deserves what he's probably
gonna get.

Manus

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Nick Nimchuk <[email protected]>wrote:

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