What Can Games Learn from Security Research?
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Traditionally, game developers have focused most of their effort on 
building compelling content and gameplay.  With the growing popularity 
of on-line gaming, however, many game developers are now faced with 
a new problem: building games that resist cheating.  Fortunately
for game developers, securing games against cheating is similar 
to securing networks and end hosts against hacking.  This talk 
examines a number of ways in which ideas from the network 
and security research communities can be applied in novel ways
to on-line games.  Specifically, we will examine how bit committment 
protocols can be used to address the information exposure problem 
in real-time strategy games, how public-key cryptography can be 
used to build public-server MMORPGs, and how trusted hardware can 
be used to detect the presence of cheats.

Bio
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Wu-chang Feng is currently an Associate Professor at the Intel
Systems and Networking Laboratory at Portland State University where 
he works on projects in networking, security, and on-line games. 
Besides running mshmro.com, one of the most popular game communities 
in the Northwest, his gaming work includes cheat detection and 
prevention, game server measurement and modeling, and the 
characterization of global game workloads.  As a result of playing
the research game, he 0wnz the 2003 IEEE Communications Society 
William R. Bennett award, the 2002 IBM Research Best Paper Prize,
and the 2005 IMC Best Student Paper award.