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The VW client and server both make use of a character Digest using the SHA-1 Message Digest one-way algorithm. This producted a 160bit or 20byte summary of your player. If you manipulate one of the variables inside on VW when it's running, the current Digest will be incorrect and VW will exit. If you manipulate shop data the servers Digest will not match the clients data, once again causing VW to exit.

The only way to get around this is to update the character Digest at the same time as you update other player data, such as Hit points or Spell points. This sounds easy, but being able to update the Digest to the correct value for the new character is nearly imposible. Your odds of guessing correctly are 1 in 2160 or 1 in about 1.46*1048. In comparison, the odds of winning a state lotery is 1 in 1.14*1010. The odds of breaking VW by brute force (that is checking all the posible ways of forming the string to Digest and finding the one that works) is only a little better 1 in 32! or 1 in about 2.63*1035. Using a Cray super-computer that could check 1 trillion of those per second it would take 8343824103681301.69 Years to process all posible ways. If everyone in the US has a Cray super-computer working on the problem, it would only take 27812747.01 Years, in the world 1390637.35 Years. Hacking the RC5 code (64bit Encryption) in comparison would take a single Cray only 213.5 days.

All in all, VW should be hack proof.

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