On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Gene Buckle wrote:
> I doubt it has anything to do with that Csaba. AFAIK, their primary
>> concern is with "griefers" ruining the network for others.
>
>
Here's the problem as I see it. Any FlightGear interface will necessarily
have a closed source interface to the Vatsim network implemented by a
developer who signed a NDA, and simultaneously it will implement an open
public interface to FlightGear. Suddenly we have opened an public api
translater for the vatsim network that anyone could exploit for ill.
Better than hiding the API details (because some enterprising person could
probably reverse engineer that pretty easily anyway by inspecting the
network packets) would be to have some sort of encrypted/authenticated
prototcol (similar to ssh). Then the protocol can be totally open, but
without proper authentication you are unable to participate. But I'm
guessing that vatsim won't be all that interested in redesigning their
entire protocol and rewriting every plugin for every sim out there, just
because I had a good idea. ;-)
Curt.
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