Hi Ross, If a cracker who determine to crack your application, it is quite easy to run some registry monitor application to find out which registry your application you use.
If you have not encrypt/compress your application, your registry string normally will be plain text in your executable anyway. Regards Leigh -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ross Levis Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 6:42 PM To: Multiple recipients of list delphi Subject: Re: [DUG]: Copy protection/program registration Hi Leigh > It is not safe just simply read that key. I just use regedit to change the > key. Yes, but who is going to know that I'm using it? Sure, a cracker could hunt it down in the code but I"m not trying to make it crack safe as that is impossible anyway. It should be unique on every PC unless a user has illegally installed Windows on multiple PC's. Regards, Ross. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
