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I've been looking at this all day. I probably should have walked away from it hours ago; I might be missing something obvious at this point.
Short version: Is there a way to generate and boil down an asymmetrically encrypted hash to a reasonable number of unambiguous, human readable characters?
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Scenario, simplified for brevity:
A developer creates an application for a customer. The customer sells this app to end-users. The app requires a license key to run, and this key is generated by the customer for each end-user with a simple tool created by the developer. The license key contains an…
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Hi all,
I recently discovered the vimsvc/license command in vmware-vim-cmd and was trying to use that to automatically add my license key to a fresh vmware installation.
vmware-vim-cmd -H hostip -O portnumber vimsvc/license --source file '/path/to/plaintext-file-that-contains-my-license-key.txt'
plaintext-file-that-contains-my-license-key…
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There are a lot of questions relating to license keys asked on stackoverflow. But they don't answer this question.
Can anyone provide a simple license key algorithm that is technology independent and doesn't required a diploma in mathematics to understand ?
The license key algorithm is similar to…
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Hello, it's late, I'm tired, and probably being quite dense....
I have written an application that I need to secure so it will only run on machines that I generate a key for.
What I am doing for now is getting the BIOS serial number and generating a hash from that, I then am encrypting it using a…
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