On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:32 PM, Rafael Bugajewski <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/29/2009, at 09:24 PM, Benjamin Rister wrote: > >> Once there’s a keygen, you have no way of distinguishing a legit serial from >> a non-legit serial using your algorithm, period. The only remedy is to >> change to another algorithm, retroactively invalidating all of your paying >> customers serials in the process. You can’t just start issuing new serials >> without impacting existing customers, because again, you have no way of >> distinguishing in the field whether this is a paid customer or not. > > You have to phone home in this case. If this is a good practice is another > question.
But with asymmetric encryption, you don't even have to ask that question. So why would you use anything else? Hamish ------------------------------------ MacSB email guidelines: http://tinyurl.com/2g55d6 Use MacSB-Talk for off topic messages: http://groups.google.com/group/macsb-talk Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/macsb/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
