Kagi Frequently Asked Question

Question:

What about making registration codes from unique serial numbers?

Answer:

Several products contain a unique serial number. The person sends the serial number with the payment and the author generates a unique registration code from that serial number.

There are two questions with this protection scheme, how do the payers provide the serial number with the payment and can Kagi calculate the registration number from the provided serial number.

At present only the Windows version of the Register program and the Web forms can require a user entered serial number. The other register programs do not yet have this capability. For the Macintosh register program, several authors have used the Comments field in the Mac Register program to have the purchaser provide the serial number but this is not something that we can require of the payer.

At the present Kagi cannot calculate registration codes from this unique serial number. Kagi can pass the serial number on to the software author and the software author can provide the registration code.

Modification Date: Monday, December 30, 1996