# Protect high scores logon key

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/protect-high-scores-logon-key/328410>\
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**Created:** [May 15, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/protect-high-scores-logon-key/328410 "2012-05-15T14:01:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![tbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@tbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tbo)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/protect-high-scores-logon-key/328410/1 "2012-05-15T14:01:07Z")

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I’m going to use one of the free High Score systems available (scoreoid).  
The method of posting/getting requires your game ID + key.

Obviously I don’t want to just slap this key in the swf. Should I have the application get the key from a separate php file on startup? Is that slightly more secure?