I wouldn't think that reverse engineering the current minilogin would do any good since it no longer reflects the protocol the current live client uses. I doubt it'll be a big problem since from a business perspective, they don't wanna change up the login protocol too often. Everytime they do it, they have a chance to introduce a bug or something that means now a bunch of peeps can't log on.
I think their biggest reasons for making a new login protocol this time were that they were consolidating station accounts and centralizing the login process. From what the articles on SOE boards said, before this last patch, a particular station name could be using one password to logon to EQ and another pw for all the other SOE stuff -- and they wanted to convert that to one pw for everything for that station name. Also the old login protocol seemed vulnerable to replay attack from what I could gather, and if that was the case really needed a change.
The old login protocol had a version of 6/3/2003, so about once a year they might change up the way logins work. A minor inconvenience, but definitely not tugging right and left... now if they will just leave AA network code alone! :P
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