The circumstances of the particular project I am quoting for would require the content to be almost exclusively off-line, diskbased, and to be used in a class room environment. So I explicitly do not want to rely in any way on authentiofication over on-line resources, as this will open up a minefield of getting it through various school, college and corporate fierwalls.
Re the cost aspect , I think, this could be built into the courses as I imagine they would sell them much miore expdensively than the cost of a dongle (whcih averages out at about £20.00 (if memory serves correctly) Nik On 4/17/07, Danny Kodicek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Nik, > > I have done research for my dad a while ago, and I came to > the conclusion that it wasn't worth the effort $$$ wise. > > Not sure whether that is applicable to your project, Pete, but has > > anyone ever used dongle (i.e. hardware) protection for > their projects? > > I am currently testing out HASP from Aladdin, and does the > job so far > > (have not come very far yet in testing though). > Yes, the problem with dongles is that it's quite hard to > implement, right. > Especially, I would like to advice you not take any of the > included examples or even consider build on top of it. The > examples are weak. Please rent some person who is fully into > the dongle and encryption. If not, it will be lost money. > > > What do you guys think about this kind of protection? Why isn't it > > used more often? > Because it's a big investment to implement. Absolutely - distribution costs, particularly, especially as each dongle has to be unique. We've decided against using them for this reason. I think there are also cultural differences, though. Some of our international partners insist that dongle protection is the most common form in their countries. A lot depends on reliability of internet access for systems based on online activation (the only other method that seems genuinely secure). Danny _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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