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From: dany@pensoft.uucp (Dany Guindi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Copy Protection Mechanisms
Message-ID: <2983@pensoft.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 91 22:44:41 GMT
Sender: dany@pensoft.UUCP
Organization: Pencom Software, Austin, TX
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We, Pencom Software, are in the process of putting the finishing touches on
our first product and are now looking for ways of protecting our software
against indiscriminate copying... It would be easy to simply use crypt and
the hostid to "brand" the sold copy to the machine in which it is installed,
but it would also be potentially easy to break that mechanism. I have been
looking for a survey paper that describes different copy protection mechanisms
but have found nothing. I would appreciate any references or input.

Also, if something like this already exists on one of the archive servers
that would be even BETTER! What are other people using????


Thanks,
dany guindi
512-343-1111
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