An efficient and secure event signature (EASES) protocol for peer-to-peer massively multiplayer online games Export

@article{chan:eases, abstract = {In recent years, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become very popular by providing more entertainment and sociability than single-player games. In order to prevent cheaters to gain unfair advantages in peer-to-peer (P2P)-based MMOGs, several cheat-proof schemes have been proposed by using digital signatures. However, digital signatures generally require a large amount of computations and thus may not be practical for interactive real-time applications such as games. Based on the concept of one-time signature, we propose an efficient and secure event signature (EASES) protocol to efficiently sign discrete event messages with hash-chain keys. As most messages need only two hash operations to achieve non-repudiation and event commitment, usage of digital signatures is greatly reduced. We also describe a dynamic version of EASES that does not require the pre-production of hash-chain keys to reduce key preparation time and memory usage at the expense of a slight delay of message commitment. As shown by both analysis and experiments, the computation, memory, and bandwidth footprints of EASES are low, making it readily applicable to P2P-based MMOGs.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Chan, Mo C. and Hu, Shun Y. and Jiang, Jehn R.}, citeulike-article-id = {4243387}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1371259.1371339}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2008.03.004}, doi = {10.1016/j.comnet.2008.03.004}, issn = {1389-1286}, journal = {Comput. Netw.}, keywords = {cheating, mmorpg, security}, number = {9}, pages = {1838--1845}, posted-at = {2009-10-26 19:22:30}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Elsevier North-Holland, Inc.}, title = {An efficient and secure event signature (EASES) protocol for peer-to-peer massively multiplayer online games}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2008.03.004}, volume = {52}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - chan:eases L3 - citeulike-article-id:4243387 N2 - In recent years, massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs) have become very popular by providing more entertainment and sociability than single-player games. In order to prevent cheaters to gain unfair advantages in peer-to-peer (P2P)-based MMOGs, several cheat-proof schemes have been proposed by using digital signatures. However, digital signatures generally require a large amount of computations and thus may not be practical for interactive real-time applications such as games. Based on the concept of one-time signature, we propose an efficient and secure event signature (EASES) protocol to efficiently sign discrete event messages with hash-chain keys. As most messages need only two hash operations to achieve non-repudiation and event commitment, usage of digital signatures is greatly reduced. We also describe a dynamic version of EASES that does not require the pre-production of hash-chain keys to reduce key preparation time and memory usage at the expense of a slight delay of message commitment. As shown by both analysis and experiments, the computation, memory, and bandwidth footprints of EASES are low, making it readily applicable to P2P-based MMOGs. IS - 9 JF - Comput. Netw. SN - 1389-1286 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 1845 TI - An efficient and secure event signature (EASES) protocol for peer-to-peer massively multiplayer online games PB - Elsevier North-Holland, Inc. VL - 52 SP - 1838 KW - cheating KW - mmorpg KW - security AU - Chan, Mo AU - Hu, Shun AU - Jiang, Jehn PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2008.03.004 ER -