So you are trying to promote your own product that got discredited by engineers before it started! Read this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers/browse_thread/thread/f032b5aa7a733a3d/dd3f85f5413f19f7 Repeating word for word what other engineers mentioned about your (solution) does not necessarily apply to others. Perhaps you should learn more about and from licmax.com. It looks like your (solution) can benefit some.
licmax.com frequently sponsors application cracking tournaments among high school and college students. If you are interested in participating (perhaps as a guest speaker), licmax would extend an invitation to you. Tournaments are usually held from Friday till Sunday on premise. Let us know! licmax.com helps application developers protect their products in the world marketplace for all platforms using industry standard algorithms. It basically relieves them from implementing their own licensing service - thats all. This way developers can concentrate on the functionality of their product, increase customer satisfaction, and maximize revenue. On Apr 14, 10:12 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm guessing that as it took you over a week to reply you're still none the > wiser as to how I'm doing it, so let me re-iterate some important points you > seem to have missed; > > 1) I've not told you how I did it, so what makes you think your little rant > on crypto algorithms is relevant to what I've done? > > > > 2) A reference implementation serves as a "gold standard" by which other > implementations can be judged > (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_implementation_(computing) ), so > as your "Gold Standard" implementation is vulnerable it's logical to assume > that all implementations will be vulnerable as they'll be based on the RI. > > > > I'm still waiting for someone to send me an implementation so I can create a > video showing it pre and post-crack, but as I've not received one I'm > guessing that developers are choosing not to use your product. > > > > Al. > > -- > > > * Looking for Android Apps? - Tryhttp://andappstore.com/* > > > > ====== > > Funky Android Limited is registered in England & Wales with the company > number 6741909. > > > > The views expressed in this email are those of the author and not necessarily > those of Funky Android Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries.On 15 > Apr 2010, at 02:13, licmax wrote:Well, apparently you don't have full grasp > of whatlicmax.comis or > does. All I can tell you is do your homework and rtfm before making > claims.licmax.comgenerates license keys using widely used industry > standard one-way hash algorithms such as SHA-256, SHA-384, MD5, etc. > If you claim you can crack these algorithms, I'd suggest you post your > findings to the standards committees that take care of such algorithms > (http://www.nist.gov/itl/ , http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/index.htm). > Again, the provided reference implementation is nothing but that. > Developers won't necessarily use the exact provided code where it > would be obvious to hackers. Each developer would implement their own > way and strategy to achieve verification goal. You don't seem you know > the difference between RI and client library.licmax.comhelps application > developers protect their products in the > world marketplace using industry standard algorithms. It basically > relieves them from implementing their own licensing service - thats > all. This way developers can concentrate on the functionality of their > product, increase customer satisfaction, and maximize revenue. > On Apr 5, 11:00 pm, Al Sutton <[email protected]> wrote:I made an offer > of anyone using licmax could send me their app and I would make a video > showing it working without a valid license, as yet I haven't received a > single request, which is why there has been no video posted, but I'd be happy > to do the same for whatever you consider to be a "secure" example.Demos and > reference implementation are only useful when they cover most real world > scenarios, so to put out a demo which, by you're own admission is trivial to > crack, is like trying to sell umbrellas by providing people with samples that > have no canvas.I suspected the method I used would be completely > undetectable, thanks for your confirmation. To me this means that developers > using your solution would not only be left unsecured they would also be left > unaware that piracy was happening. This is the same situation they would be > in if they didn't implement licmax, and hence it would appear your product > offers little if any benefit to developers.Al.--* Looking for Android Apps? > -Tryhttp://andappstore.com/*======Funky Android Limited is registered in > England & Wales with the company number 6741909.The views expressed in this > email are those of the author and not necessarily those of Funky Android > Limited, it's associates, or it's subsidiaries.On 5 Apr 2010, at 21:33, > licmax wrote:Hi,licmax is a web-based license generation and verification > service, nota client library. Developers may implement use of the service > tovarying degrees of defense against piracy according to their > strategy.licmax' mechanism is neither proprietary nor undocumented. > Ourliterature clearly describes full details of the mechanism, whichhappens > also to be employed by other providers. It is our technicalconviction that > such a mechanism can be part of a robust anti-piracysolution.The demos and > reference implementations are merely intended toexemplify fetching and > verifying license keys. Cracking the referenceimplementation binary is > trivial. We clearly state its use is at thediscretion of the developer.As > for this specific piracy attempt cited in the first post of thisdiscussion, > we can confirm there has been no compromise of licensekeys on our servers. > The attempt clearly didn't exercise theprinciples of licmax since there is no > trace of the perpetrator on oursystem. Our installed customer base regularly > endures piracy attemptsnone of which as has ever been successful.If you need > further guidance on the licmax strategy, please visit usatlicmax.comand feel > free to contact us at [email protected] Regards,The licmax Team > > ... > > read more » -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
