Re: Serial number verification / obfuscation (was: Re: Hiding [...] symbols [...])
Re: Serial number verification / obfuscation (was: Re: Hiding [...] symbols [...])
- Subject: Re: Serial number verification / obfuscation (was: Re: Hiding [...] symbols [...])
- From: Carson Baker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:15:59 -0500
The main problem I see is that people share their serial numbers. And it
only takes one person to reveal their number before the rest of the
bloody internet has it too. What's to prevent this? Checking over the
Internet may be adequate but then you abandon all non-Internet users.
Maybe I'm missing the point, but cracking seems like a much smaller
issue.
On lxrdag, juli 27, 2002, at 10:21 , Pierre-Olivier Latour wrote:
If you'd like, I could take a look at your registration solution and
provide
feedback on how you could make it more secure. I have had some
experience
with this lately. I have evaluated about 30 cocoa programs and their
respective serial number mechanisms in order to find the best
solution for
my own application. I managed to crack 20 of them in less than an
hour each [...]
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