Forum ‹ General ‹ General flash security - IP spoof, man-in-middle

[Breaker]

Is there any built-in security/encryption for flash Player.IO or TCP protocols in general? I'm just wondering if I need to worry about my game being susceptible to IP address spoofing. For example;

• If some one were to spoof their IP to get admin access and forward packets to their real IP.
• Player A is standing next to player B in the game world. Player B uses a man-in-the-middle attack to send a false packet to the server. The server sees the "drop item" packet being sent from what appears to be player A's IP address. Player A drops his item and has no idea why. Player B snatches the item and quickly logs off.

[Toby]

As in, the client sending packets with an altered source IP? Wouldn't they need the sequence number for that to work?