Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekfdi!videovax!stever
From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: An Idea for Hardware Protection (short)
Message-ID: <4783@videovax.Tek.COM>
Date: 12 Jan 88 19:29:48 GMT
References: <8801090958.AA20842@ucscb.UCSC.EDU> <38413@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.)
Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon
Lines: 25
Keywords: "personal" dongle gongle kongle mongle pongle songle zongle
Summary: Not this way, either!!

In article <38413@sun.uucp>, Chuck McManis (cmcmanis@sun.UUCP) writes:

> [ "Credit card" dongle suggestion ]

>                                                             . . . A more
> interesting 'key' was the one proposed by some users group that had an
> EEPROM in it. Seems the software would read the key, and then change the 
> eprom. (Recording the number of times it had been read or something) Then
> the software could authenticate the keyvalue with it's internal value 
> and if you duplicated the key physically, you couldn't run it more than
> once with the bogus key. (Which would become the valid key because the 
> original would now have an invalid number in it). 

> . . .

But if you duplicated *both* the disk *and* the dongle, they would be in
perfect sync!  So, instead of just copying a disk, you copy the disk and
the dongle.  And the pirates win again. . .

					Steve Rice

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