Bluetooth Predators?

[Pha|anx]

I can see the day where instead of someone sitting up in a tree on the sidelines with a gun shooting at players, I can imagine a guy with a laptop and antena changing gun settings remotely.

I had went over this idea a while back... Basically cheating would be unstopable, except by regulating board design.

[jsdatjsd]

Once the list of key pairs gets out, they become useless.

sry, I accidentally turned into a re-poster there.

FOrtunately, I had a bottle of troll-b-gon and I sprayed myself.

Yah, ditto on the bluetooth statements above.

And, yeah, it would be pretty hilarious to take contolr of the opponents markers, and rip a couple hundred shots 30 seconds before the game starts.




jd

[Hexis]

You are not going to find asymetric encryption (pub/priv key) on embedded devices. We still don't use it for most VPN style applications because of the overhead costs vs stream encryption. It's really not realistic to expect to see anything like real encryption in an embedded controller.

Bluetooth is not going away anytime soon. There are efforts in process to up the bandwidth and provide other refinements. As a cable repalcement technology BT has been hugly sucessful. It's the must have feature on cell phones and other related devices. I don't see if having much function in paintball devices. Most boards don't have any sort of link feature. In addition, many embedded controllers have a USB port. You may not see it represented as a physicial port, but many have the port in hardware and can be used if the board designer wants to provide the connector on the PCB.

[SlartyBartFast]

You may not see it represented as a physicial port, but many have the port in hardware and can be used if the board designer wants to provide the connector on the PCB.

And as part of the stupidity of Paintball related patents, making the USB or any other port physically available and using it in any manner has been patented.

I believe it is part of the WDP patents.