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GeneralKeep additional information inside a "serial number" Pin
eclipse2k13-May-05 7:33
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Hello Code Project Community!

Our Case:
The Customer has to unlock his application by passing a valid combination of a username and his serial number/key which we generated for him, using our own key generator.

Example:
Username: Jack Miller
Serial-#: 0954F43A-90C4AC01-F09951CF-9012387A


Currently we are doing a simple check: We encrypt the Username with a hardcoded salt and check if the result equals to the serial number (this is how we in fact generated it Roll eyes | :rolleyes: )

We dont need a perfect security here and we know everything can be bypassed but this is currently really enough.


But now we would like to keep additional information inside of the serial number, for example, a License type (would be enough if we have numbers for it from 1 = demo to 4 = enterprise) and also a date for evaluation versions.

So we would like the user to type in his Username and his Serial, and we could show him, that the Serial provided is a demo key, valid until 05.06.2005, for example.


There must be a good practice or strategy how to hide this information inside of the serial number, but we have no idea, because we have to keep the length of the serial number! Can you help? Confused | :confused:


Thanks in Advance!

Thomas
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