Hi Damien, That's true, but what I'm doing makes it harder to create a custom key generator. At least if someone passes their name and key around, and I find out about the key I have a name to tie it to and can either block said name and key in my future products, and can refuse to sell products to the person who shared their key. It is a lot harder to filter out invalid keys if someone has a custom key generator and can make custom keys at will. That said nothing is full proof and I know it. I just gave my reasons for not doing automated key generation, and I'm firm on that point.
Cheers! On 12/19/10, Damien Pendleton <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > As far as name registrations go it doesn't have to be a matter of physically > cracking the game. It could simply be that there is a customer who gives a > key to a friend and thereby leaves room for that friend to pass around the > key until it eventually gets to a website maintainer who puts it up for > download. Is it really worth making it different for each game just in case > all of your customers are honest enough to keep their key to themselves? > It's like Philip's article says, if they're going to crack it, they're going > to crack it anyway regardless. > Regards, > Damien. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Thomas Ward" <[email protected]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, December 19, 2010 6:29 PM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Registration features of BGT > > >> Hi Muhammed, >> >> It really comes down to basic security. As Philip explained in his >> article the more generic you make your registration system the easier >> it is to crack not just one of your games, but all of them with one >> simple crack. With an automated security system the registration >> process, I.E. the formula for creating registration keys, has to be >> fairly generic in principle. If someone should ever figure out the >> right formula/process they can create a quick and dirty random >> generator that not only cracks game x, but will consistantly work for >> all of your games. Since I create a new random key generator on a per >> game basis I can at least be assured the same key won't be used for >> two different products, and a cracker will have to figure out the >> means of how I generated that key on a per game basis. It is far from >> a full proof system, but I'll make them work harder to discover how I >> did it. In short, it adds a little more security to a weak security >> system. >> >> On 12/19/10, Shiny protector <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi Thomas, >>> I changed my mind. Yes name and key is better. But in stead of you just >>> sitting down and generating keys, why don't you have an automatic system >>> like Munawar does? In that way it would be quicker. >> >> --- >> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >> [email protected]. >> You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at >> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the >> list, >> please send E-mail to [email protected]. > > > --- > Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] > If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to > [email protected]. > You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at > http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. > All messages are archived and can be searched and read at > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. > If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, > please send E-mail to [email protected]. > --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
