Re: [JBoss-user] Copy protection

2002-02-21 Thread Richard Lim
what to fake, >> ... >> if the parameters used cannot be faked, someone >> able to hack th JAVA VM could do the job. >> >> This risks may be important to analyse for >> financial transaction security, privacy protection, >> or secrecy, but not just for >> software licensing.

Re: [JBoss-user] Copy protection

2002-02-21 Thread Dain Sundstrom
ked, someone > able to hack th JAVA VM could do the job. > > This risks may be important to analyse for > financial transaction security, privacy protection, > or secrecy, but not just for > software licensing. > > > > >>-Message d'origine----- &g

RE: [JBoss-user] Copy protection

2002-02-21 Thread Coetmeur, Alain
tware licensing. > -Message d'origine- > De: Dain Sundstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Date: jeudi 21 février 2002 16:29 > À: Coetmeur, Alain > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet: Re: [JBoss-user] Copy protection > > > You really

Re: [JBoss-user] Copy protection

2002-02-21 Thread Dain Sundstrom
You really don't understand the basic theory of cryptography, which assumes you have a trusted source and a trusted sink. The source and sink are people not machines. For example the movie industry believed that DVD copy protection was unbreakable, because they controlled the sink software.

RE: [JBoss-user] Copy protection

2002-02-21 Thread Coetmeur, Alain
one way is to use a public key protocol to check for right to execute maybe a privatekey can also be enough. an example could be: a key component of your EAR looks at the server name, and check if it is coherent with a certificate it has in it's keystore. you can create a certificate for each

Re: [JBoss-user] Copy protection

2002-02-20 Thread Dain Sundstrom
You can't. You will have to learn to trust with your users. -dain Leigh Wanstead wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I am not sure if this is a correct place to ask. Anyway, here is the > question. > > How to protect your ear files? I mean if you deploy ear into application > server, how you preve