Starting idea

[K i n g o f K i n g s]

basically I had an idea about an anti hack that I may try to program (and learn to program during that time) however I want to know if the concept is possible. I pmed several people about this and the only one I heard back from was scope (and he wasn't sure)
I was thinking is it possible to send false warden signals to other people in the game (since most things disconnect so that they are not detected by warden)?

[ɥǝnяʎ ıן]

an antihack for sc?

[pikachu]

I believe the warden requests come over your BNCS connection.  Since the Starcraft in-game uses a separate UDP protocol and communicates directly between the clients, there would be no way to send your own warden requests.  On the other hand, if people disconnect from BNCS to use the hacks, you could check every 30 seconds or so if the other members are still connected to Battle.net.  If not, drop them.

[Jusτị¢e]

why dont you spend your time doing something useful.

[pikachu]

Like learning to program?  Ya Justice, that definitely doesn't sound useful.

[Jusτị¢e]

Then program something useful, follow some tutorials. Not make some bullshit for a game.

[pikachu]

That's how I learned to program and now I'm working with genetic computation and artificial neural networks.

[K i n g o f K i n g s]

I believe the warden requests come over your BNCS connection.  Since the Starcraft in-game uses a separate UDP protocol and communicates directly between the clients, there would be no way to send your own warden requests.  On the other hand, if people disconnect from BNCS to use the hacks, you could check every 30 seconds or so if the other members are still connected to Battle.net.  If not, drop them.

So BNCS connects you to blizzard servers/warden and UDP connects you to other people in the game is what your saying?

[pikachu]

BNCS = battle.net chat server.  It's the servers and protocols used when you connect to something like useast.battle.net on port 6112.

UDP = user datagram protocol.  It's another protocol on the transport layer (as opposed to something like say, TCP).

In essence however, yes.

[K i n g o f K i n g s]

BNCS = battle.net chat server.  It's the servers and protocols used when you connect to something like useast.battle.net on port 6112.

UDP = user datagram protocol.  It's another protocol on the transport layer (as opposed to something like say, TCP).

In essence however, yes.

Is it just the set I.P. addresses for useast or does it send an authentication to the program to show it is part of BNCS?

[pikachu]

I'm not sure what you're asking.

[ɥǝnяʎ ıן]

the ip address for say uswest, useast, europe, hes asking if its a set one or all of them

[pikachu]

All of what?  Are you asking about how the domain resolves to an address?

[K i n g o f K i n g s]

Do programs identify a request by BNCS by the I.P. it comes from or is it by a authentication sent or is it solely because the request comes from port 6112

[pikachu]

You actively create a socket and maintain a connection to the server, so all data that comes across the wire will get handled by your bncs handler.  You don't just magically get access to all the data going over the network and then pick it out by ip or port.