Xbox One check-in will need "kilobytes, not megabytes"

[Alby_da_Wolf]

Max King of the Wild said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
They could add the ability to do the check through SMS. If you have cellphone connection only outside your house, you just generate a code with XBone, go where your cell gets connected, send it to MS that sends it back digitally signed. Being quite cumbersome, they could make this check last 48h instead of 24h.

If your xbox has no internet how would it A generate a non-used code. And when you get the code from MS how can it then send the code to MS to use?

A random code long enough to avoid repetition or make it unlikely. Should it happen, it will happen rarely enough to not being a big issue handling the ecception, for example conceding an ecception to be handled by a human operator, but also conceding the signed code back without complex procedures if nobody used the same in the same day and the same console never used it before, or used it a long time before. Also, the serial number of the console could be merged to the random number, making it unique, and a further check could be made also on the cellphone number, but it shouldn't be necessary, as digitally signing a random number merged with a unique serial number would return an authentication code with extremely low probabilities to be recognized as valid by another console with a different serial number. It could happen but the possibility of breaking the terms of use would be so low to cause negligible damage to MS, if any.