security code number generation

[Ken Ray]

> I'm looking for something to generate license codes for some software I'm
> planning to sell.  Do you think this would work for that purpose?

Take a look at Zygodact; it does exactly this plus it has a DropTool component to make it a snap to work with.

http://www.runrev.com/store/product/zygodact-1-0-4/


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/	


> Pete
> Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
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> 
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Peter Brigham MD <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> For anyone who might have the need, I have a handler I use to generate a
>> security code, in my case for printed prescriptions. It takes the name of
>> the patient, the date of the prescription, the medication and med strength
>> and hashes all that to produce a ten-digit alphanumeric string (using 0-9,
>> a-z, A-Z). If there is any question about the validity of the prescription I
>> can retrieve the correct code from the rx entry in my database with a
>> mouseclick (actually recalculating the code from the stored rx data) and
>> confirm it with the pharmacy. This has proved useful on two occasions when a
>> pt was playing fast and loose with his prescriptions.
>> 
>> The algorithm is fast in LC, sufficiently obscure that I'm pretty sure it
>> would be hard to hack -- though of course few things are bulletproof in
>> encryption if someone wants to try hard enough -- and discontinuous in the
>> sense that similar inputs do not generate similar outputs, eg, change one
>> character in the input and the code number is completely different. The
>> probability of coming up with the correct security number by chance alone is
>> 1 in 10^15 (a million billion to 1). It could be adapted to any number of
>> purposes. I am not posting the handler here, since it would be unwise to let
>> it be archived and available, eg, with a Nabble search, but if anyone is
>> interested, let me know and I'll share it.
>> 
>> -- Peter
>> 
>> Peter M. Brigham
>> pmbrig at gmail.com
>> http://home.comcast.net/~**pmbrig <http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig>
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