Re: Registering software
Re: Registering software
- Subject: Re: Registering software
- From: "Finlay Dobbie" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 18:53:29 +0000
On 13/03/06, Marcus S. Zarra <email@hidden> wrote:
> No registration schema is perfect.
Of course.
> What would your suggestion be for
> a registration schema for an Objective-C/Cocoa application?
Something home-grown. Be creative.
> BTW, I have yet to see an Aquatic Prime hack on the net.
I have yet to see an app which uses Aquatic Prime. Perhaps they do
exist, I'm not really a follower of such things. However, I do
remember when it came out I whipped up a proof-of-concept hack in a
few minutes.
The Obj-C interface is obviously trivial to crack (say, inputmanager
which overrides the validation function and always returns
"registered" with a category, or something).
If you use the framework, you're also SOL (compile your own
AquaticPrime.framework which always says it's registered, and replace
the one in the binary with that).
Securest form is probably the static library "Carbon" implementation,
but even then it is fairly trivial to patch the binary (you know what
the implementation looks like in machine code, just do a find &
replace).
The whole thing about "RSA encryption" and suchlike is clearly irrelevant.
-- Finlay
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