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


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