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- From: mba@datashopper.dk (Michael B Andersen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: Key File Programming
- Date: 12 Feb 1996 08:51:39 +0100
- Organization: DataShopper Danmark
- Message-ID: <619.6615T1177T633@datashopper.dk>
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- >IDEA is freely available, but not freely usable. It is a patented
- >algorithm only freee for noncommercial use. And choosing a good
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- Yes, Your right, I was thinking (when I wrote the letter), that using it to
- protect a program was'nt commercial use :). But I'm wrong oviously it's
- commercial as soon as You start selling the end product.
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- >encryption alorithm is only half of the work in making a "secure"
- >key file.
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- Yes, but that was not the argument in the original letter, and I also sayd so
- in my letter. But the fact is that the algorithm is safe, for now.
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- bstrg
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- Michael B Andersen
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- Denmark
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