On Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:42:10 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >- ... (assuming he had write access to the load library, or to "protected" >memory). > Il va sans dire.
>- Our "key" (licensing, whatever you want to call it) is definitely >"protection by obscurity." If you knew exactly how it worked, you could defeat >it, and run our product forever on every mainframe in the world. > Is there any licensing scheme for which that is not true? It can be as simple as zapping a mask in a branch taken when validation fails. I imagine encrypting the executable code, and letting the preamble "call home" to get the current day's decryption key. But I still see holes. <STRAWMAN>Or run the entire application in "the cloud", where the vendor could retain control.</STRAWMAN> -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
