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P2P gaming should use this too: everyone makes their moves, send a hash of the moves, then send their moves. It eliminates cheating during the final move exchange, where someone could change their moves after seeing other players moves.



Unfortunately this only works for turn based games with discrete states. It's much more difficult to do with realtime continuous movement where you need dead reckoning and fudge the math a little bit.




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