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Originally Posted by cole89103
its been tried you wont get anything usefull out of decompiling minilogin many have tried to make minilogin public and all have failed there have been several work arounds but to make a public loginserver to work how you want it you need the crypto that eq uses to talk to the server and without that you will never get a public loginserver working
better just either use the php updater i mentioned or change the ips manually or use the public loginserver eqemulator.net provides
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Unless they're using something really, really, really, really, really super complicated, it's crackable. It's always crackable. Someone had to be able to do it in the first place to get the public Login Server to work.
The Login Server, be it the public or the minilogin, has to transmit certain information. It absolutely has to. The Server Name being one of those pieces of information. Unless it is transmitted unencrypted, in plain text, then you have a huge cryptographical advantage -- you know what some of the content of the message already is. On top of that, one should easily be able to discern what the preambles and/or postables of the messages are using the opcodes listed, and indeed, minilogin itself.
There are only three reasons I can think of for the lack of release of source code for either minilogin or the public loginserver. The first is that it contains leaked sourcecode from SOE. The second is that source is no longer available. The third is that people only want software to be 'free' and 'opensource' when it benefits them to do so.
As to the second option, I find it possible, since development has been locked at Titanium. I'm afraid it comes down to a choice between number one and number three.
I readily admit that something such as the loginserver is a non-trivial task. I am also entirely unaware as to the authorship of the public login server -- which is why I believe a possible reason it cannot be made available is due to copyright violation. However, I do know that the emulator itself is open source, and as a programmer, I get extremely frustrated with having to reinvent the wheel. And the axle. And the cart. And the donkey. And all the laws of physics that enable those things to exist.
Oh well. Where's that packet sniffer?