Re: Want to Protect my Software - Recommendations?

holtz.regina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Aug 11, 5:33 pm, Kristian Gjøsteen <kristiag+n...@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Also note: simple instantiations of this idea are easily broken by
determined attackers.

Well understood. I have no intention of protecting against determined
hackers as it is futile. I simply want minimal protection as I have
read in numerous places that ZERO protection leads to ZERO paying
customers. If 30% of my software's users will be paying, I would be
very happy...

You should also take into account that such vendor-side protection is
considered annoying, no matter how well you implement it. It doesn't
stop pirates, but it may easily scare away your legitimate customers.
You _will_ run into problems with all active DRM methods you implement,
especially if you try to validate by hardware configuration.

If 60% of your customers pay, but 95% of your _potential_ customers
moved to products with less annoying DRM, then your idea was a total
failure. I recommend a simple license key check. You can use public
key cryptography to make it impossible for crackers to generate valid
license keys. This is the offline equivalent of what you want.


Greets,
Ertugrul.


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