If someone had the encrypt/decrypt functions said person could easily write a little sniffer that decodes the passwords from players logging into EQLive. That's the reason they weren't published. Putting them into a DLL doesn't help, since anyone (well, not really anyone ...) could link and use it for the same purpose mentioned above.
Although I admit that someone who's able work with an "unknown" DLL is probably also capable enough to crack the encryption himself.
Another reason for not releasing the login server is make sure that all EQEMu servers are centralized somewhere. If you think of that as "control" then you should really do something about your Big Brother paranoia.
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