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From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: Re: software protection - dongles
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Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 00:04:38 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 23 00:04:38 1985
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> The use of a built-in serial number for each machine can work very
> well, BUT--
> 
> Suppose I replace a machine with another that will run the same
> software?  Do I then have to get all new copies of any software I'm
> using?  Or will there be (in all cases) an easy, quick way to re-
> register the software so I can still use it on the new machine?  Or
> am I forced to buy all new software, even though I'm still using it
> on only one machine albeit a different machine?
>
The advantage of key/key ring systems, as proposed by ADAPSO, is that
all protection hardware is EXTERNAL to the machine, and therefore
easily transported in the event of either hardware failure or the software
being used on a few machines in a non-simultaneous method.
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PS: for those wanting the address to contact ADAPSO for the soon to be 
released proposal for a communications standard for h/w protection devices,
please contact them at:


	Becky Spenser
	ADAPSO (Association of Data Processing Service Organizations)
	1300 North Seventeenth Street
	Suite 300
	Arlington, VA 22209
	USA

Included in the proposal will be several implementation SUGGESTIONS
to help assure a more robust protection system than is currently
used (make the system patch resistent, non-sharable, etc.).

-- 
Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus
Development Corp.
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