Hi Alan,

We're using CocoaFOB to generate Mailplane 3 licenses. That way we don't 
need to run a server to verify your license. All we need is to build a 
public key into the Mailplane copy and run it against your license code.

Best regards,
Lars

On Thursday, April 18, 2013 5:05:18 AM UTC+2, Alan Hoyle wrote:
>
> I just registered/upgraded Mailplane 3 because I think it's worth it. 
>  Just a comment about the license code.  The one I received has 15 groups 
> of 5 letters plus 1 group of 1 letter all separated by dashes.  Assuming 
> that there are about 33 characters available for each letter (i.e 
> alphanumeric CAPS without the ambiguous 0, O, and 1), that's 76^33 power of 
> possible license codes which is larger than 1.16 * 10^62.  This would 
> require 2^207 bits to write out.  For comparison, there are only about 
> 9*10^49 atoms in the earth, and 1.19 * 10^57 atoms in the sun.  This seems 
> like WAAAAY overkill. 
>
> Not that it really matters 99% of the time as it's just as easy to copy 
> and paste 86 characters as it is to copy/paste 20-30, but, I mean, 
> seriously?   
>
> (Oh, and please re-enable chat notifications in Mountain Lion ;-)
>

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