Would something like Northcodes SWF studio be very secure - I jsut
found out that (from their overview page) ...
Protect Your Work: Are you worried about people extracting the files
you bundle with your applications? File resources you bundle with your
application can be encrypted using
not just yet, we are trying to get the go ahead for a demo first, do
that, spec out the app fullyand approve the budget, so it might take a
while. But I'll keep it in mind. What you have in mind is dongle-less,
but protecting the swf from being decomplied? Or preventing it from
being copyied tro
And me ;) !
How would I connect such a dongle with the app I am trying to
preotect when I am using Director and / or Flash!
I think I wasted a bit of your email blabbing about security. The
reality is, you don't want a dongle, it just complicates things, and
hardware is generally
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Genuine Dongles? What about dumping dongle data and then use a dongle
emulator?
I'm glad you asked! =)
Making a totally un-copyable dongle is actually pretty trivial. There
are
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Genuine Dongles? What about dumping dongle data and then use a dongle
emulator?
I'm glad you asked! =)
Making a totally un
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Yeh, but woudl that be an option (skills and software wise) to the
average user, even to the average pirate or copier??
The ore I look into the issue, the more I am thinking of not really
going beyond the deterrent stage, as anything beyond that becomes a
'project ' in itself, detracting budget
Hi Ivan,
What you are saying is very easy to say if you don't feel the need to
actually comment on a possible solution.
Without wanting to take this thread too OT - what is your suggesiton
to people / companies who have content which they invested
considerable amount ot time and money to
Hi Weyert,
Can a dongle easily be circumvented then?
What's the best way of protection then, and do you know where I would
find a specialist in this?
Thanks,
Nik
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Hi Nik,
I have done research for my dad a while ago, and I came to the
Hi Nik,
I have done research for my dad a while ago, and I came to
the conclusion that it wasn't worth the effort $$$ wise.
Not sure whether that is applicable to your project, Pete, but has
anyone ever used dongle (i.e. hardware) protection for
their projects?
I am currently
The circumstances of the particular project I am quoting for would
require the content to be almost exclusively off-line, diskbased, and
to be used in a class room environment. So I explicitly do not want to
rely in any way on authentiofication over on-line resources, as this
will open up a
I am aware that it's not a bad comment, Ron (Thanks for your thoughts
on dongles, btw). I was interested in finding out what Ivan thought
would be an alternative to trying to protect content.
I am 'only' a developer working for various people and companies, but
I am not sure at this point what
Nik,
I missed the beginning of this thread (on vacation), so forgive me if
I misunderstand the premises... but we've had a good experience using
CrypKey Instant to wrap applications (http://www.crypkey.com/),
which then require a software key to unlock for specific machine(s)
only (it
This is not a bad comment.
What I gather that he is saying is that we are perhaps looking for a
technical solution when we should be looking at the source of the need.
If you believe that your customers will steal from you and try to make
money from redistributing your product behind your
Dongles would be pretty hard to control in a classroom.
1)They would disappear (practical jokes or wanting to run the software
on different machines and not returning them, etc.).
2)The administration of many sets of dongles required to support
different applications would make the Tech support
I can make a cheap, cryptographically secure USB or Serial dongle no
problem.
However, the issue with any kind of software-based security is that once
the software is on a client's machine, the client can do whatever he
wants with it; modify it not to use the dongle.
But you CAN make it a
Hi Kipp,
that sounds exactly like the strategies recommended to me by the
Aladdin guys, and their manuals. And it also sounds logical to me. The
question to me is now whether I can tie a dongle into actions script
and then e.g. obfuscate the code to a high enough degree that it would
be above
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Hi Kipp,
that sounds exactly like the strategies recommended to me by
the Aladdin guys, and their manuals. And it also sounds
logical to me. The question to me is now whether I can tie a
dongle into actions
Genuine Dongles? What about dumping dongle data and then use a dongle
emulator?
Yours,
Weyert
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Thanks all for your responses (and apologies for my tardy reply!)
Roy - that's a really interesting idea. I have a couple of follow up
questions though please. Were you then loading those SWFs into Director,
rather than using a loadMovie to load them into Flash? I assume so,
because although I
Hi,
Not sure whether that is applicable to your project, Pete, but has
anyone ever used dongle (i.e. hardware) protection for their projects?
I am currently testing out HASP from Aladdin, and does the job so far
(have not come very far yet in testing though).
It does offer to build calls to the
Hi Nik,
I have done research for my dad a while ago, and I came to the
conclusion that it wasn't worth the effort $$$ wise.
Not sure whether that is applicable to your project, Pete, but has
anyone ever used dongle (i.e. hardware) protection for their projects?
I am currently testing out HASP
Hello Peter,
I think a problem in business idea.
You can compare Microsoft and Google business idea.
And?
Do you like Microsoft direction?
Everybody understand: it's yesterday's business principles.
You need to change your mind for correlation with today's realities.
Problem not in protection
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At 5:53 PM +0100 4/11/07, Blumenthal, Peter wrote:
Hi List.
I'm interested in hearing people's thoughts on the issues surrounding
prevention of software piracy on Flash based applications, released on
CD-ROM.
Since you are running in Director, one technique I have used in the past
which may
I don't know if this can help you out, but I'm little familiar with
director and in south america I've seen that some developer put the
libraries of the executable in external and locked.
I don't know whether Flash can do it or not, but you would googled
that issue...I hope this can help
This is a topic that's come up several times in the past on the Direct-L
list. You might want to search the list archives at
http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/direct-l.html
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