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Lockstep protocol

The lockstep protocol is a partial solution to the look-ahead cheating problem in peer-to-peer architecture multiplayer games, in which a cheating client delays their own actions to await the messages of other players. A client can do so by acting as if they're suffering from high latency; the outgoing packet is forged by attaching a time stamp that is…

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Look-ahead cheatingPeer-to-peerMultiplayer gamesLatencyHash
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Lockstep protocol

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Avg. degree1.83
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Lockstep protocol → Such, This, To
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Lockstep protocol → partial solution to the look-ahead cheating problem in peer-to-peer architecture multiplayer games

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players protocol lockstep player actions action commitment sent time announce cheating client latency game games first commitments asynchronous peer-to-peer hash

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Lockstep protocolis apartial solution to the look-ahead cheating problem in peer-to-peer architecture multiplayer games0.90text
Lockstep protocolrelated to Asynchronous lockstep protocolTo0.60section
Lockstep protocolrelated to Asynchronous lockstep protocolThis0.60section
Lockstep protocolrelated to Asynchronous lockstep protocolSuch0.60section

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