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It had, another thing is that it used somewhat questionable system for CD key validation, which is stubbed out in this release (https://github.com/BohemiaInteractive/CWR/blob/main/engine/P...).

One thing is 120bit RSA (readily broken with a graphing calculator at the time of release), another thing is the provenance of the RSA implementation code in the original binary.

what is provenance?

It was copyright protection, not anti cheat, and I thought it was fun/interesting as well!

It was called FADE <https://kotaku.com/now-this-is-how-copy-protection-should-be...>

I think that was arma 2. It also turned the player into a pigeon after a while.

Was Flashpoint

"Original games do fade" -- turned you into the seagull

The protection description text was on the loading screen, white letters on dark by, bottom-center