Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
- Subject: Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License Keys...
- From: Cameron Hayne <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 03:57:58 -0400
There is a related discussion over on SlashDot triggered by a Tom's
Hardware article on CDROM copy protection:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/06/17/2151254
One interesting thing mentioned was the strategy used for a PlayStation
game where the developers made it difficult to crack and had the game do
checksums to check for modifications and then (this is the clever part)
they made the game fail in subtle ways instead of just aborting when a
crack was detected. This meant that the crackers had to put in a lot of
time testing to make sure their crack really worked.
The details are in an article on the Gamasutra site (free registration
req'd):
http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20011017/dodd_01.htm
... Cameron
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Cameron Hayne (email@hidden)
Hayne of Tintagel
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