Chapter 3201 — Not Fully Resolved
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Jingjing says the next version of the upgrade program she's working on can actually make the cauldron adjust the temperature during pill refinement automatically, so the alchemist no longer has to change the temperature himself according to the temperature curve. That way, any novice alchemist who can condense a pill fire can refine pills with the grade-one automatic cauldron, without having to control the pill fire's temperature skillfully." Liu Jinghan said. "But since Kang Jingming's side can crack our chips, Jingjing can only change the upgrade method over there. She's now planning to make an external device and use it to achieve the earlier functions!"
"Oh? And this external device won't be cracked by Kang Jingming?" Wei Zhao asked. "As far as I know, there should be a program inside it too, shouldn't there? Can't the microcontroller storing that program be cracked just the same?"
"It's different." Liu Jinghan explained. "This external device does contain a microcontroller, but it has no computation program inside—it can't compute the required pill fire temperature from each alchemist's current pill fire temperature. To put it plainly, it's a WIFI module containing a unique authentication ID serial number. Through this external device, one can access the company's server; all the computation is done remotely on the company's server, and finally the computed data instructions are received through this module to change the pill-refining temperature the cauldron needs. The external device itself has no program inside."
"Then can't Kang Jingming copy this thing?" Wei Zhao asked after hearing this.
"Every external device's ID serial number is unique, and only after passing the server's verification can it obtain computation data. IDs that aren't authorized cannot access the server. Moreover, if the same repeated ID serial number logs in multiple times at once, the server will blacklist it and revoke that ID's computation privileges." Liu Jinghan said. "So simply copying it is useless."
"Oh? That's a good idea—whose was it?" Wei Zhao was somewhat surprised. This kind of remote server computation would probably leave Kang Jingming with no move to make.
"It was me..." Liu Jinghan said, a little embarrassed. She had stolen Han Jingyi's credit, yet she did not blush in the least, as if it were only her due.
"That's good, then." Wei Zhao nodded. "We'll adopt this method for our cauldrons' follow-up upgrades as well!"
"This method is relatively safe, but only relatively. Actually, on Kang Jingming's side, as long as they collect enough of the data fed back from the server over multiple rounds, they can still recompile the program—it's just that the process will be lengthy, and cracking it won't be as easy as before." Liu Jinghan said. "To put it plainly, they're gathering data and piecing it together. Once the data covers enough ground, there's no need for computation at all—they only need to satisfy the public's needs."
"That's true." Wei Zhao nodded, realizing the problem still had no fundamental solution—they could only stay ahead for the time being—and could not help but sigh.