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On-line gaming has seen something of a popular explosion in recent years, and is rapidly becoming the predominant focus of many gaming platforms. Unfortunately, honesty is not a virtue favoured by all players in these networks. This paper proposes a Trusted Computing based security framework for gaming consoles that will be resilient to platform modification based cheating mechanisms. In addition to this, we propose a Trusted Computing based auction mechanism that can be used for auctioning in-game items.
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Balfe, S., Mohammed, A. (2007). Final Fantasy – Securing On-Line Gaming with Trusted Computing. In: Xiao, B., Yang, L.T., Ma, J., Muller-Schloer, C., Hua, Y. (eds) Autonomic and Trusted Computing. ATC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4610. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73547-2_15
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