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		nsgi on Aug 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Stop reverse engineering our code” Why didn't Sega just require games to be digitally signed with their key?

Natsu on Aug 15, 2015 [–]

At the time, I'd guess that not many people knew anything about cryptography.

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