Hi Cosmin-- There's a couple free components available that might serve your purposes. One's called TmxProtector, and you can find it at http://www.maxcomponents.net, and the other is called TRegware, available via http://www.wakproductions.com/regware/.
Good luck. My thanks again to you, and the rest of the list, for your responses to my questions over these last few months -- Alan C. >From: "Cosmin Prund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List <[email protected]> >To: "Moderated discussion list about programming with Borland's Delphi" ><[email protected]> >Subject: LITE security / licensing aid >Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:42:59 +0200 > >Hello everyone! > >I'm working on securing some of my applications right now. I've managed to >get "on/off" security working (ie: you're ether licensed or you're not >licensed) but now I'd like to add a few tones of "gray". Essentially I'd >like to add the ability to delay activating the product for a while. This >requires some storage for number of "runs" or "expiry date". > >I KNOW there's no real way of securing any piece of data on a client's >system but I'm not really facing real crackers so a "so/so" solution would >work. The thing I'm mostly afraid is the situation where someone would >stumble across my "data" and simply delete it! That would make my >application think it was freshly installed and provide the client with a >fresh "free" period! That's not good. > >I mostly think I know the solution: I just need to write the same data into >multiple places so the user would not find them all. But then comes the >question: Where exactly do I write this data so the user would NOT consider >I'm invading his space? > >I'm considering: > >1) My "Program Files" folder. This is very obvious and the user is likely >to >find it. >2) The "Application Data" folder for the current user. This doesn't exist >on >Win9X machines! >3) My registry key (under the HKCU\Software\MyCompany key). This would be >easy to spot too. >4) Some other, better, yet polite hiding place :) > >Anyone been here before? >Anyone has other good ideas? > >Thanks for your input! >Cosmin Prund > > >_______________________________________________ >Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] >http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi _________________________________________________________________ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx?cid=Retirement _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
