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- From: svent@informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Sven Thoennissen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Key File Programming
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 09:34:03 GMT
- Organization: RWTH -Aachen / Rechnerbetrieb Informatik
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- 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.
-
-
- hmm see the situation in a global sense.
-
- Not everyone has connections to crackergroups or some source like that.
-
- And even if someone gets a cracked copy of a shareware program, he might
- use it, until he thinks "oh my, I am using it soooo much, it's worth its
- price!" and then he pays and becomes a registered user. The cracked
- version is just for looking into the program, wanting to know what it is
- able to. If the coder releases quite often more releases where old keyfiles
- become useless, this WILL improve user's mind to buy the program.
-
- Any protection can be broken. It's just there, so only strongest crackers
- can crack it, wiht much experience.
-
- bye
- sven
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