Internal security of Rev?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Jul 13 01:02:36 EDT 2006


sims wrote:

> At 3:57 PM +1200 7/13/06, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>Aside from hardware dongles, what devices/methods can prevent copying?
> 
> Although limited, Ambrosia software seems to use at least one such device.
> When you come to the EuroRevCon in November I will explain this to you in more
> detail, Richard.
> 
> From:  http://www.ambrosiasw.com/webboard/Forum14/HTML/000052.html
> "The fundamental change we made was to place the date a license code 
> was generated into the code itself. That timestamp is then used at 
> just one point in the process: it forces the user to activate the 
> product within 30 days, or the code expires and won't activate 
> anything, Now, and this is important, the timestamp has absolutely no 
> effect on the operation of the software after the code has been 
> entered. Once personalized for the user's computer, it remains fully 
> functional forever (unless someone wipes the system clean)."

That seems similar to RunRev's and others' time-limited-demo scheme, but 
does it prevent a user from attempting the same reg code on multiple 
machines?

Thus far I've only seen phone-home systems do that....

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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