World of Warcraft "Battle.net.dll"

[MyndFyre]

Alright, so I just realized:

This file was not in the Alpha. It first showed up in the Beta. Now, in the Alpha, we used our WoW accounts to login. In the Beta, we have to use our Blizzard Accounts to login. Hm?

And a new version was released with the new build last night. It went from 1.0.0.10238 to 1.0.0.10477. I've uploaded it on my FTP, it's the same link.

I think you're backwards; in Alpha I needed to create a "temporary Blizzard account," but once Beta was posted to PTR people could use their WoW accounts.

[Sixen]

I think you're backwards; in Alpha I needed to create a "temporary Blizzard account," but once Beta was posted to PTR people could use their WoW accounts.

You sure about that Mynd, ;P. In the Alpha we used our normal account names. Login to the Beta, you need to use your Temporary Blizzard Account.

PTR Client and Beta Client are different, just FYI.

[MyndFyre]

I think you're backwards; in Alpha I needed to create a "temporary Blizzard account," but once Beta was posted to PTR people could use their WoW accounts.

You sure about that Mynd, ;P. In the Alpha we used our normal account names. Login to the Beta, you need to use your Temporary Blizzard Account.

PTR Client and Beta Client are different, just FYI.

Do I need to revisit an old thread?

[Sixen]

Do I need to revisit an old thread?

.

So, just to make sure I wasn't going crazy, I checked. To login to the PTR, you need to use your normal account. To login to the beta, you can use your normal WoW account, however it doesn't add the PTR to it, so it doesn't function 100% correctly.

The Battle.net.dll was introduced with the Beta, and so was the Temporary Blizzard Account. Blue post about requiring a Blizz Account to get into the Beta. That thread you posted all happened during the Beta.

[MyndFyre]

I promise I needed to create a blizz account to get into the alpha.

[brew]

It exports 4 functions uninterestingly called "Battle_net_1", "Battle_net_2", "Battle_net_3", and "Battle_net_4".  Battle_net_1 appears to take no parameters or they are somehow global in memory; it also performs some regular expression validation that consists of a string with 1-n word characters plus a dot, then a semicolon, then 1-n number characters.  It also captures the first and second groups into backreferences excluding the semicolon.  Not quite sure what it does because from my research WoW doesn't reference entities at all that way, but maybe things have changed.

It does a bit more than that, check out how it creates randomness with CryptGenRandom, a sha1 of values from the global memory status, free disk space, current process id, current thread id, and then more crypto stuff in 3C932D00.

[MyndFyre]

Yeah sorry brew, I didn't spend much more than about 2 minutes really investigating.  I have better things to do with my time.

[Sixen]

It does a bit more than that, check out how it creates randomness with CryptGenRandom, a sha1 of values from the global memory status, free disk space, current process id, current thread id, and then more crypto stuff in 3C932D00.

Feel free to keep looking.

I promise I needed to create a blizz account to get into the alpha.

I distinctly remember only having to use our normal WoW accounts, because when the beta came out and introduced the Temporary Accounts, I asked if we needed to use those on the forums as well, and I had been posting on the forums for some time. That thread I linked you to had come around as the beta was released.

[Barabajagal]

Blizzard needs to unify the account systems, 4srsly.

[Sixen]

Blizzard needs to unify the account systems, 4srsly.

Almost positive that's what's going on... Soon(TM).

[MyndFyre]

Blizzard needs to unify the account systems, 4srsly.

Almost positive that's what's going on... Soon(TM).

z0mg, I didn't need to upgrade to a Blizzard account for 3.0.2

[Sixen]

z0mg, I didn't need to upgrade to a Blizzard account for 3.0.2

Mmmm, i'm thinking it's coming with WotLK, not the patch itself.

[bulletproof tiger]

I'd say best bets are it'd be coming with starcraft two, or diablo three.

[Sixen]

I'd say best bets are it'd be coming with starcraft two, or diablo three.

Bnet v2!

[MyndFyre]

z0mg, I didn't need to upgrade to a Blizzard account for 3.0.2

Mmmm, i'm thinking it's coming with WotLK, not the patch itself.

Well....  Just saying....  Didn't need to upgrade to a Blizzard account.