Securing Your Code

[gladus]

Hello Everyone,

I wrote a code and created an .exe executable from it. What I want to know is how can I protect it? I don't want people to steal it and copy paste. Are there any way I can set up subscription based protection in which I can set subscription limit or protect it with something like hasp or authenticator?

Any help is appreciated thanks.

[The trick]

If you care then use protectors. You can usually don't care about stealing because after compilation nobody can restore the source code. Decompilation is the very difficult procedure and most cases nobody want to decompile your code. Maybe someone will decompile your code in order to bypass protection, registration etc. It does not mean that someone will recover all the source code. Anyway if someone want to know find out a needed algorithm or some data format he will have found it anyway. You can only compilcate this process.
I can give you an advise: you should compile an exe to native code in order to complicate decompilation as well you can use a protector.
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...=1#post4979639

[gladus]

I think I didn't make myself clear enough. What I mean by sevuring is I not only want to protect source code but also I want to be able to distribute it safely. So that it cannot be used on other computers without my permission.

[The trick]

So that it cannot be used on other computers without my permission.

You can assign your program to hardware (for example, calculate hash using SerialNumbers, MAC address etc.). When an user buys your program he sends the hardware information to you. Receiving this information, you calculate the key and send to him. The program checks the key data with hardware information and if success then runs program.

[gladus]

This sounds good. How can I do it can you link me somewhere or any tutorial?