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- From: ganterth@mathematik.tu-muenchen.de (Thomas Ganter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Key File Programming
- Date: 09 Feb 1996 10:45:49 GMT
- Organization: Math. Institut der TU Muenchen
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- In article <4fcrrd$eu4@news.xs4all.nl>, marcone@xs1.xs4all.nl (Marco Nelissen) writes:
- |> Daniel Stenberg (FRS) (dast@sth.frontec.se) wrote:
- |> : Well, a strong keyfile will make the pirates to patch your executable to
- |> : avoid the keyfile, but they can *NEVER* ever create a keyfile-maker that
- |> : could damage any project pretty serious. It's all up to the author to
- |> : decide.
- |>
- |> In my opinion, a keyfile is useless. You are basically just adding another
- |> file to your distribution.
- |> Pirates will simply distribute the program with the required keyfile, or
- |> they will decript the keyfile in the same way that your program does,
- |> extract any code or data that may be required, and add that to the main
- |> program, so that the keyfile is no longer required.
-
- Yep, but if You update your application, the pirates are required to do the same
- thing all over again. Any owner of a valid keyfile (best containing some code,
- the registration number, name, adress, again some code) just can install the
- update, the users of pirated software will have to wait for the pirates.
-
- Patches, applied e.g. via setpatch, will cease to work too.
-
- I'm not sure which kind of application we are talking about here. It is my
- experience, that any serious application i own is regularly updated (at least
- the author provides bugfixes), and this will not work with pirates. Of course
- this is no argument for using keyfiles for games :)
-
- - Thomas
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