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[Headmember]

Hi!

 

Could somebody help me? How can I save my quest with password? I don't find this option in the editor. Thats it.

 

bye

[Deedee]

Quest -> Options -> Header -> Change Password.

A warning though; passwords are a formality and not a hard thing. Anyone can break into your quest if they know the master quest password (which is common knowledge) or if they build ZC themselves or if they load via the web browser version. 

[Anthus]

To add to that, if you do password your quest, make sure it's not a password you use elsewhere.

[connor.clark]

Anthus: We only store the password hash, not plaintext.

[Emily]

Anthus: We only store the password hash, not plaintext.

...Do ".key" files not store it plain though?

[Headmember]

Quest -> Options -> Header -> Change Password.

A warning though; passwords are a formality and not a hard thing. Anyone can break into your quest if they know the master quest password (which is common knowledge) or if they build ZC themselves or if they load via the web browser version. 

What do you exactly mean with "master quest password (which is common knowledge)"?

 

And thank you all for your fast help.

Edited by Headmember, 07 November 2023 - 06:02 AM.

[Moosh]

What do you exactly mean with "master quest password (which is common knowledge)"?

Alongside individual passwords set in the quest header there's one password that can open any quest. It's so developers can easily open a quest in past versions of the program to troubleshoot difficulties. Now that ZC is open source, this password is publicly visible on the Zelda Classic GitHub and anybody with some programming know-how can find it. Consequently it has been shared around a lot and anybody within Zelda Classic development circles (IE most of the active community) is likely to know it.

 

Now what does this mean about anyone looking to password their quests? If you want to make it so nobody ever can open your quest under any circumstances, you're out of luck for the above reasons. If you're worried about people opening your quest to steal from it or modify it without your permission, there has been no precedent for this in this community whatsoever. Generally speaking the ZC community is made up of people who can be trusted and on the off chance where they can't be, ZC itself provides high enough barriers to entry that they can't be bothered to do anything malicious.

 

I still password my quests. It's good fun and makes for a cool treat to give out to players as a reward for completion. Just don't go hiding anything sus in your quests.

[Headmember]

Okay, thank you for that info.