Re: About crackers and Dinky Dongle

Hi,

We use the dongles for a long time (Two years) as a copy protection, very
useful, but at the end they found out ways to crack it. It seems that our
manufacter at the end improved their design and offered us to upgrade our
hardware. But the price and the fact that we were passing the cost of it to
the customer make us develop a software mechanism to offer the same
protection.

In summary:
It is a very simple and fast way to protect your investment, great for
disconnected environments, but if your clients environment have web access
or complex setups i will recommend to look for software methods.

Good luck.

Esteban Pacheco
http://estebanp.blogspot.com
A Delphi Programming Blog


"Guillem" <guillemvicens-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
>
> reading the thread "Activation keys" i remembered about the existence
> of these hardware keys called Dinkey Dongle.
>
> For the ones which know nothing about it, they are programmable HW keys
> which you can use to lock your app to a computer, i.e., your app would
> only work in the computer where the key is plugged in, thus preventing
> illegal copying. AFAICR, you can have them as USB or parallel, and they
> are cheap. IMO this has not too much sense for small and cheap apps,
> but it could be a good thing for (relatively) expensive ones like
> midware, corporative apps, servers and so on.
>
>
> Now to my question. We were thinking about possibly using this locking
> keys in one major app. So,
>
> has anyone worked with these Dinkey Dongle hardware keys? Are they hard
> to crack? Would it be still possible to crack the software to *not*
> check with the locking key? How actually does it work????
>
>
> Thanks for any replies
>
> PS: If someone wants more info on it, check
> http://www.microcosm.co.uk/dinkey.shtml
>
> --
> Best regards :)
>
> Guillem Vicens
> Dep. Informática Green Service S.A.
> www.clubgreenoasis.com
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