I've got to do some research into how to secure the data in a large database so that it can only be used with its licensed application. The scenario is an application distributed with MapInfo tables (mostly map features with a unique Id and minimal other information) and an Access database consisting of several linked databases.
I think I can do this by password protecting and encrypting the Access data and VBA code, and through some sort of a software license key file grant access to the program (probably by simply giving it the password while not making that public.) I can probably protect the MapInfo data by limiting the attributes carried in the tables so that they are not very useful without the application, but that's obviously not ideal. But am I looking at this the right way? Does anyone have any better ideas or experience with doing this? How do those software licenses work that you see with data-heavy applications? TIA, - Bill Thoen --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 17923
