SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play

Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play by lucian1900 on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:11PM (#5375836)

I never meant that changing the certificate is impossible, just that it isn't trivial.

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Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play by icebraining on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:19PM (#5375889)

I only did something like that once, but it was absolutely trivial, since it included the ASCII header. Search, overwrite, add a little padding, done.

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Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play by gknoy on Thursday March 14, 2013 @12:35PM (#5375984)

toblaso means that rather than finding/changing the certificate, someone patching the game could either replace the certificate with a self-signed/generated one (for your local server instance), or completely bypass the usage of SSL entirely.

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Re:SimCity mod demonstrates the possibility of offline play by nwh on Friday March 15, 2013 @02:17AM (#5379435)

I've done similar while reverse engineering a protocol. Just whipped open a hex editor, found the signature of the certificate and bamn. Neutered.

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