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- From: i.einman@genie.com (IAN J. EINMAN)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Key File Programming
- Date: 11 Feb 1996 21:38:54 GMT
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- Sender: i.einman@genie.com (IAN J. EINMAN)
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- >>I don't think this is accurate. The IDEA algorithem witch is freely available,
- can't be cracked, atleast until now, there has'nt been shown anyway into IDEA,
- and brute force would take 1000(maby 10 if You have a Cray, this is a guess)
- of Years.
-
- However I belive that the crackers, will remove Your copy protection. without
- cracking the encryption, by rewriting the code.
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- This is what I meant. Even if you can make the keyfile foolproof, you cannot
- make the program foolproof. You need to deeply encode the program and be extremely
- tricky about how it works. Not a programming project in C. And even if you create
- some excellent scheme, the pirates have cracked many such schemes.
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- It's not worth the trouble to go into great schemes to make a keyfile. Pirates don't
- bother with keyfiles quite like they do games or major apps. A 800 byte file won't
- help their UL/DL ratio much.
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