Esteemed monks,

My Perl/Tk based Windows monster grows apace, and now the overlord (my client) deems it necessary to have some sort of registration / validation / activation 'thing' tacked on to it. Of course, he like most of the great un-washed is aware of Microsoft's monstrosity. I, on the other hand, am opting for something a little simpler.

When the user enters the 'disk key' which is supplied with the product the registration information is sent, along with some data which gives a footprint of the computer, to the registration server. Once this has all been validated I want to send back a structure which has been encrypted. This should be stored on the users PC.

My question is - WHERE? I will want to read it each time the application starts, but I am unsure as to where I should put it.

jdtoronto

In reply to [OT] Software registration and activation. by jdtoronto

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