Re: [OT] serial number validation algorithm?
Re: [OT] serial number validation algorithm?
- Subject: Re: [OT] serial number validation algorithm?
- From: "Alastair J.Houghton" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 11:01:51 +0100
On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 10:27 am, petite_abeille wrote:
On Tuesday, Oct 7, 2003, mathew wrote:
4. When presenting the registration code to the user, use a restricted
character set.
Another thing I found useful... is to somehow incorporate, in plain
text, the name of the licensee to the SN... so instead of having an
"anonymous" SN... there is a name embedded in it... this will not make
your SN any more secure or anything... but... a licensee is more
likely to think twice before distributing a "personal" SN with its
name in it... YMMV.
The same goes for apps. in general; if you can somehow embed a
fingerprint into the application as it's downloaded, then you can tell
where a particular copy came from. Not quite as good for shareware,
but pretty good for full commercial software where copying is
prohibited, because you can easily trace the source.
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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