On Mar 29, 6:59 pm, CharlesHarrison <[email protected]> wrote: > If it isn't stored anywhere, how do they check it's the correct one? > On the page where you sign up for one, it suggests that the key is > linked to and associated with your Google account:
It is. The key is a hash of account details and the URL for which it was generated, but it doesn't have to be stored anywhere. The Google account can presumably be reverse-engineered from the key so that banned accounts can be denied; and the URL is only there to check that it matches the URL of the page which uses the key (in which case that only has to be one-way encryption). The key holds its own data. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" 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/google-maps-api?hl=en.
