What's to stop the user from just launching the application manually? The only way that you can really secure the data on the CD would be to encrypt it somehow and require the user to access the data via a custom application that is included on the disk. The app could access the website, validate whatever, and decode the data as needed.
Mind you, this still isn't secure because someone can decrypt the data or can hack the executable and simply NOOP the instruction(s) that perform the validation. -- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 625-9191 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 5:52 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Web Based CD key > > > > We have a customer that has asked us to create > > a CD that would only "unlock" > > Interesting... here are my thoughts.. > The cdstart.. can be an applet that posts to > webservice/url/form.. to login.. > > On login success.. start the *.exe app.. director or whatever.. > > Joe > > On Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:41:52 -0600 Luis Lebron > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > We have a customer that has asked us to create > > a CD that would only "unlock" > > if a person was logged in to a particular web > > site. Any ideas on how this > > could be done. I'm thinking that the CD could > > check for the existence of a > > particular cookie. Anyone have any ideas? > > > > > > thanks, > > > > Luis > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
