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Re: Copy protection
« Reply #15 on: Aug 25th, 2015, 9:56pm »
Use RSA algorithm.
Create yourself a Private and Public key pair.
Keep private part on your side and embed public key in your app in pendrive.
At the activation stage read the volume serial number say a 16 hex digit number, append 240 randox hex bytes to the right and sign this with private key and put that certificate to thr pen drive.
At the start and at critical points read volume number and check certificate with embedded public key by raising certificate to power 3 mod N and look at the firrst 16 hex digits.
Or, create a constant unique string of 20 bytes and write zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and find its position in your exe file. at activation step get volume number and xor 20 byte random fix number and then calculate SHA1 of this and open your exe as a random file and seek to the position zzzzz... you found before and place this SHA1 hash there.
And in normal use mode at the start open your exe as a random file seek to the same position and retrieve the hash , read volume no and xor same fixed random and recalculate SHA1 and check if they are same number.
Probably, a casual user can not break such a scheme.
Probably, a casual user can not break such a scheme.
It's just as easily broken as any copy-protection scheme based on the Volume Serial Number. The attacker just needs to change the serial number of his disk to be the same as the serial number of the pen drive, and the program will run!
I'm sure the OP appreciates this, since he is proposing to 'break' the copy protection himself by giving all his pen drives the same Volume Serial Number!
Re: Copy protection
« Reply #17 on: Aug 26th, 2015, 07:50am »
Yes, I wasn't really after a hacker-proof solution, just one that would defeat the average user. But I appreciate the info CryptoMan. That might come in handy in the future.
I think we probably have different ideas of what a "casual user" can do. My casual users have never used the right mouse button
« Last Edit: Aug 26th, 2015, 07:57am by Monkfish »
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