Re: Serial number verification / obfuscation (was: Re: Hiding
Re: Serial number verification / obfuscation (was: Re: Hiding
- Subject: Re: Serial number verification / obfuscation (was: Re: Hiding
- From: Mitch Haile <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 15:27:58 -0400
I took a similar approach in a program I recently released.
What I did with a recent program is tied not only the user's name, but their
CC street, city and email address that they use to buy the product--The
registration code is a checksum against their name, street, city and email,
and I display that information in the About panel, the splash panel, etc.
I know I wouldn't want MY name & street & city & email floating around.
I'm sure it has been/will be cracked but I'm not convinced those would
pirate buy anything at all.
I'm pretty wary about going after my paying customers as suggested earlier
in this thread--it seems that could generate way too much negative feelings
toward my business to be worth it, since I don't think I could ever be sure
if someone really aided in pirating or if they were just unlucky to have the
same code.
on 7/28/02 3:05 PM, Sherman Uitzetter at email@hidden wrote:
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Sorry, lost original attribution:
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>> 1) Distribute the serial numbers, or create a serial number generator
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In our experience, serials number will not be published if they include or
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require the customer's name. They will be published if they're just some
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random-looking code that doesn't match to or include the customer's name.
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We had one shareware product that started out life with just codes. They
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would be published (Sufer's Serials) within days. After switching over to
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name/code pairs, no more publishing. Then they resorted to creating their
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own codes. That takes them longer.
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-Sherman.
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