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Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
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Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...


  • Subject: Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
  • From: Riley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 17:27:34 -0700

> Does anyone have any advice or more information on this subject that they can share?

I would recommend against using an objective-c method to determine whether your program has been registered. All of that lovely meta-data that the objective-c compiler provides can and will be used against you. Stripping the binary is no help since the addresses of methods are preserved in the objective-c segment.

Better still: Leave an "isRegistered" method in your binary but just as a decoy; use (c) functions (or macros) to do the real dirty work.

No registration system is perfect, but a verification mechanism that advertises its interface is asking for trouble.

--Riley Lynch
http://www.codeclever.com
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