Re: [sword-devel] UnlockInfo .conf entry

2018-12-29 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Hi Jaak, thanks for the feedback... On 12/29/18 5:39 PM, Jaak Ristioja wrote: > Why can't the About= entry contain this information? The About= entry does contain this information right now, but it usually contains too much information for a nice, short, description for a UI to display instructio

Re: [sword-devel] UnlockInfo .conf entry

2018-12-29 Thread Jaak Ristioja
I like the idea, because it is useful information for the users. Here are some of the thoughts I gathered for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainstorming";> Why can't the About= entry contain this information? I'm unsure whether "UnlockInfo" is the best name. Is it safe to assume that th

Re: [sword-devel] UnlockInfo .conf entry

2018-12-29 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Hi Michael, There is a new mechanism committed in the latest trunk of SWORD which allows a publisher to "personalize" an unlock key per user, if they would like, but SWORD does nothing to try to enforce 'per device' or 'per user' usage. I have never heard from a publisher that they do not wish to

Re: [sword-devel] UnlockInfo .conf entry

2018-12-29 Thread Greg Hellings
Years ago I wrote a proof of concept showing how every customer could receive a cipher encrypted module with a unique key per user. Nothing stops any publisher from doing the same if they wanted to avoid having a single unlock key. Having it unique to the user's device would be relatively straight

Re: [sword-devel] UnlockInfo .conf entry

2018-12-29 Thread Michael H
As long as you're opening the unlock option for debate, can I suggest that the unlock codes get hashed for the user in some way. That is the user provides some kind of credential information to the publisher, which the publisher uses some of the info to hash the unlock code, and the resulting code

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[sword-devel] UnlockInfo .conf entry

2018-12-29 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Dear Frontend Developers, In an effort to gain more publishers-- even those who desire to lock and sell some of their modules, I would like to add a new .conf entry: UnlockInfo Up until now, we've relied on the About entry containing something that lets the user know how to obtain unlock codes f