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    <p>Assuming you actually want to prevent license abuse there are far better ways to do this. The "phone home" approach is easy to roll yourself, but as you've noticed it's full of holes. </p> <p>Disclaimer: I work for a company that makes <a href="http://wibusystemsusa.com" rel="nofollow">commercial tools to solve these license management and copy-protection issues.</a> There are other similar products available from a variety of vendors.</p> <p>This isn't that different from thinking about how to do setup for your application. Choices are roll your own or buy an existing 3rd party toolset. Rolling your own at first blush make seem cheaper, but that's perhaps only because you haven't really discovered all the true requirements to create something robust and reliable. The 3rd party tool vendor needs to charge for their products, but they've spent years discovering all the issues with particular problem set and have solved the problems. So that eliminates work for you and leaves you free to focus on where your application can add value. </p> <p>The difference is if you get setup wrong your users will be irritated; if you get copy protection wrong your product will be pirated. </p> <p>In any event, reducing license validation checking to a binary "either/or" condition is extremely easy to crack--doing that check over the net makes it 10 times easier (record playback attack). Modern approaches encrypt the executable and the license is contained in the key to decrypt it (this is an oversimplification since the actual methodology includes a lot more complexity to make it virtually impossible to get around). Only by having a valid license can the executable be decrypted on program load and run.</p> <p>If you want to do it the way you've described, consider this: Have the app use a predictable, changing value (such as a lookup from a table of random numbers coupled with some external value like time) to create some kind of hash. Have the server implement the same code. The server sends the hash to the app, which compares it to its own hash. If they match, the app is allowed to run. If they don't, it errors out. Since the hash is different on ever startup attempt, recording it over the network won't allow the user to get it to run the next time it tries to start.</p>
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    1. COIf you don't remove that "impossible to get around" I will certainly mod this down.
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    2. COHi, thats also a good idea. Hashing with some outside factors seems nice. Thanks :)
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    3. COOk, I modified it but I think you're bullying a little bit. The small part I'm referring to is the way the key is retrieved. I believe it's impossible to circumvent, unless you know a way to crack ECC.
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