about licensing software

[Hrishikesh]

hello

i am assigned a major project of developing a licensing software for a small firm , but didn't got the idea of how to develop it . the theme is that it should ask for registration keys and only if it is valid the app will run . Please help .

Drake

[SteveCRM]

uh, you got in over your head.........you have to see if the code they enter is the code, but how to randomize the code in every version i don't know.
I really hope you get some help...because I wasn't much help. Ask some people on ICQ

[doughboy]

I'm not sure if this will be much help, but here it goes. If I understand, the program will want a regestration key for the program. there will be many different users, so many keys are needed, but they need to be random. Most software that requires a key is only looking at a few things, in the actuall number (i.e. a few digits) and if they are correct, then it works. thus the number contains a bunch of junk that really makes it look random. Is this the idea? if not, I might have acouple of other ideas...

[SteveCRM]

but then someone can use it on other computers with the same registration code

[doughboy]

That is how it works now with a wide veriety of programs. that is why if you lose your cd key for example, you can just use another one from the same make of the program.

another way that i can think of is to get a username type thing, generate a key from that and include the generater in the prog to check from the name for the key. an example would be if the user is John doe key 1015tg. (I do have a logical way of gettin the pass) then you would need the name and pass from registration. I also have seen progs that do that. I hope I am being understandable