First I'm happy someone else besides me is trying to make a secure mame, thanks Mark for starting the ball rolling.(posted 9540 days ago)Now, You can't fault the MAME team at all for not responding to the MARP people, their job is NOT to serve our desires. I think they worry about and improve the program tons more than we can ever thank them for. This particular problem we face (to debunk forged inp files) is an incredibly difficult problem in cryptology, and it is our communities responsibility to make right.
For our problem, you need to pass information between a program run by user A through to user B (the inp authority) with out user A knowing what the program is doing. A virtual impossiblity since A can see everything the program consists of since it must exists on A's hard drive. I am hopeing Mark has thought of everything in his version because I will try to hack out his modification of the inp file to see if anyone else can too (i'm pretty lame at hacking so if i can do it anyone else could.)
I encourage others (better than me) to attempt to cheat with Marks program, and if they are successful in doing so mail him how they did it. Alhtough, you can see i don't have faith that Mark's first version will be hack proof, I indeed hope we can eventually make something that no one can cheat with.