Adding Extra Security to Your Scripts

Terminal · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 2:14 am

This feature is available in version 0.75 and onwards.

You can add extra security for your scripts by enabling encoding for important lines. For example, if you have the following script on matrix.com:

Code:

SAY connected to the MATRIX
$pass = input(Enter your password?)

IF $pass = secret123 THEN
//do something
END IF

... you can see that the password, secret123, is transmitted in plain text.

You can add a ^ character to the start of any line, and DSO will automatically encode these lines. This means that they are protected from packet sniffing and other network tools, further increasing the security of your domain name.

Here is the script with the ^ characters added to the secure lines:

Code:

SAY connected to the MATRIX
$pass = input(Enter your password?)

^IF $pass = secret123 THEN
^//do something
^END IF

The lines beginning with ^ will be encoded during transmission, when they are uploaded to one of your domains and someone CONNECTs to them.

Note: You can use this trick on entire scripts, however it may reduce the speed on larger scripts.

The encode entire scripts, simply add
^all
near the top of your script.

Example:

Code:

^all
SAY connected to the MATRIX
$pass = input(Enter your password?)

IF $pass = secret123 THEN
//do something
END IF

...then the entire script will be encoded.

Moeppel · **Joined:** Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:27 pm **Posts:** 22

Woot, thats a nice thing

Kazagistar · **Joined:** Sat Dec 29, 2007 4:29 pm **Posts:** 101

I tested this, and it works awesome, if you are careful.

However, something about the new updates killed some of my scripts, so I will have to figure out what...

Osiris · **Posted:** Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:50 pm

Wow, great feature!
So no one could find out the password with packet sniffing ^__^

Moeppel · **Joined:** Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:27 pm **Posts:** 22

I guess i found a bug. The following seems to be broken:

^SERVER APPEND ...

Terminal · **Posted:** Tue Jan 15, 2008 1:05 am

Moeppel wrote:

I guess i found a bug. The following seems to be broken:

^SERVER APPEND ...

I updated the server, try this now!

Adding Extra Security to Your Scripts

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