Certainly I lock my car in the car park - but I then take key with me ;-)

With this sort of software 'protection' you are leaving the key in the software - rather like leaving the key of your car in the exhaust/tail pipe. It is security by obscurity.

Apologies for the rant, but this is one of the areas that I feel strongly about - it isn't possible to copy protect digital media like this, be it DVD discs, audio, books or programs (to name 4 media with high profile cracks).

If you supply the key with the media (or with the software that decodes the media) you haven't added any security only obscurity. To have real security you need to pass the key seperately, eg on a dongle, smart card, my PGP key exchange etc, and you need to individually encrypt each item.

In reply to RE: RE: Re: peeking at the working interpreter by ncw
in thread peeking at the working interpreter by gregorovius

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