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by ry0ohki 4601 days ago
I'd think you'd want to make a signed hash of each request, so the server can verify it came untampered from the client.
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Candy crush does this, and circumventing it was one of the points of the article. It is hashed with a secret key from the flash client. He just extracted the key from the client and started signing the requests himself.
He signed the requests. I think they'd need some sort of way to ensure that the level's initial settings were also used.
True, although it seems not all of the calls are like that, for example the number of lives.