Tokei Posted January 23 Group: Members Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 662 Reputation: 671 Joined: 11/12/12 Last Seen: 6 hours ago Share Posted January 23 Heya, I've been receiving messages about people selling NovaRO's decrypted GRFs and honestly... that's beyond stupid. The server is already closed down, anyone buying this is getting straight up scammed. You could have just asked. I put the key attached down there. I'm too lazy to upload the GRFs though, you'll have to find that yourself (or if someone want to host it and link it below, go ahead). Plus, we released installers without the files encrypted on accident multiple times, so it's not like these files weren't already accessible to begin with. nova.grfkey 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pokye Posted January 23 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 46 Reputation: 10 Joined: 08/22/22 Last Seen: Yesterday at 08:40 AM Share Posted January 23 @Tokei Wow thanks Tokei. And taking advantage of the fact that you are talking about decryption... There are a lot of people managing to break the grf, and generate a key. I think this encryption will have to be improved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokei Posted January 23 Group: Members Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 662 Reputation: 671 Joined: 11/12/12 Last Seen: 6 hours ago Author Share Posted January 23 4 minutes ago, Pokye said: @Tokei Wow thanks Tokei. And taking advantage of the fact that you are talking about decryption... There are a lot of people managing to break the grf, and generate a key. I think this encryption will have to be improved. I am aware. However this isn't a high priority for me at the moment. If someone wants to spend time on this, feel free to contact me. I'll get to this eventually, but it won't be anytime soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoshinho Posted January 23 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 14 Reputation: 4 Joined: 02/20/23 Last Seen: Monday at 01:35 PM Share Posted January 23 25 minutes ago, Pokye said: @Tokei Wow thanks Tokei. And taking advantage of the fact that you are talking about decryption... There are a lot of people managing to break the grf, and generate a key. I think this encryption will have to be improved. cases increased drastically after opening grfeditor's srccode, but my autopatcher wouldn't have been coded either without reading grfeditor code, so I can't complain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freezing1 Posted January 23 Group: Members Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 53 Reputation: 4 Joined: 10/02/16 Last Seen: Sunday at 07:54 PM Share Posted January 23 it's not just NovaRO that has been decrypted. you left the GRF Editor code open and they are selling everything. next time, you might think better of leaving the source open to everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokei Posted January 23 Group: Members Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 662 Reputation: 671 Joined: 11/12/12 Last Seen: 6 hours ago Author Share Posted January 23 (edited) 24 minutes ago, freezing1 said: it's not just NovaRO that has been decrypted. you left the GRF Editor code open and they are selling everything. next time, you might think better of leaving the source open to everyone. I would suggest to not speak nonsense on a development forum, it doesn't make you look good at all. This has absolutely nothing to do with sources being public. For that matter, the sources have been public for more than 10+ years on rAthena. Not only that, but C# is not a compiled language, it can be "decompiled" with little to no effort to begin with using tools like JetBrains. What's worse in what you said is that the encryption is applied via cps.dll, compiled in C++, which isn't released in the source at all. Even if someone didn't know the sources were public on rAthena, Act Editor has all the libraries in plain sight outside of the executable to begin with. For reference (because I've heard that comment many times already): Edited January 23 by Tokei 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wahdoi Posted January 24 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 2 Reputation: 1 Joined: 09/18/21 Last Seen: March 10 Share Posted January 24 Hello Tokei, As much as we all love NovaRO, it is really sad to say goodbye to this legendary RO server. I would like to say thanks for sharing the key, however i believe many of us uninstalled the game after they shutdown the server. Will you please be kind and share us their latest grf please? Your consideration will be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance and sorry for bothering you with this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JinYuichi Posted January 24 Group: Members Topic Count: 8 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 92 Reputation: 18 Joined: 11/24/14 Last Seen: 1 hour ago Share Posted January 24 I believe that if everyone shares the concern of not wanting their content stolen from their servers, they should consider opening an option to make donations to Tokei and prioritize security. I understand that working for free can be demotivating, so offering incentives would be a much better option. I'm just expressing my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
botka4aet Posted January 24 Group: Members Topic Count: 5 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 211 Reputation: 17 Joined: 12/23/11 Last Seen: 21 hours ago Share Posted January 24 > their content stolen from their servers Only sprites and maps Maps without scripts - nothing Sprites mostly bought from content creators About security - just use strong password. Just it Anyway, thx for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aoshinho Posted January 24 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 14 Reputation: 4 Joined: 02/20/23 Last Seen: Monday at 01:35 PM Share Posted January 24 16 hours ago, Tokei said: I would suggest to not speak nonsense on a development forum, it doesn't make you look good at all. This has absolutely nothing to do with sources being public. For that matter, the sources have been public for more than 10+ years on rAthena. Not only that, but C# is not a compiled language, it can be "decompiled" with little to no effort to begin with using tools like JetBrains. What's worse in what you said is that the encryption is applied via cps.dll, compiled in C++, which isn't released in the source at all. Even if someone didn't know the sources were public on rAthena, Act Editor has all the libraries in plain sight outside of the executable to begin with. For reference (because I've heard that comment many times already): Don't let these things affect you, programming is a great power, but not everyone has responsibility, if person A makes a code, and person B modifies that code for malicious purposes that affect the community, then the community's problem is with B and not with A, we can't confuse things, it's like Functor's war against hackers, every day programmer B makes an update to bypass programmer A's protection, so programmer A needs to create new protection, the difference is that functor receives money for this while tokey has always released everything for free, I can speak for myself, I am extremely grateful for everything you did for us 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fahhad Posted January 25 Group: Members Topic Count: 27 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 107 Reputation: 5 Joined: 07/01/14 Last Seen: January 28 Share Posted January 25 Thanks @Tokei. you are the goat of this forum, your tools helped a lot of servers' owners. Btw, do you have any plans for the Server database editor recent bugs? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchelo Posted February 14 Group: Members Topic Count: 1 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 4 Reputation: 0 Joined: 11/20/12 Last Seen: February 25 Share Posted February 14 On 1/24/2024 at 3:04 AM, botka4aet said: > their content stolen from their servers Only sprites and maps Maps without scripts - nothing Sprites mostly bought from content creators About security - just use strong password. Just it Anyway, thx for sharing Did you have the GRF file for share? On 1/23/2024 at 10:39 PM, JinYuichi said: I believe that if everyone shares the concern of not wanting their content stolen from their servers, they should consider opening an option to make donations to Tokei and prioritize security. I understand that working for free can be demotivating, so offering incentives would be a much better option. I'm just expressing my opinion. I agree with that, work is not free, and now I just see people that can break any GRF, dont known how they are doing it, maybe just weak passwords? Dont known, but better we support owner to get things great for us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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