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On Wed, 03 Apr 2002, Alex Matulich wrote:
> >I have a system in TS that I want to create a stand alone program.
> >
> >What program would you any of you recommend that can create a
> >charting program with buy/sell signals that can be encrypted so it
> >won't be hacked and then sold by software pirates?
>
> Anything you do in TS can be implemented in C or C++ with some
> effort. When you compile the code, the executable has no remnants
> of the source code that made it. Then you have a stand-alone
> executable that can't be deciphered.
>
> This isn't cheap to do, however. If I were to take on the job of
> converting a TS system to C++, I'd charge $10K minimum -- assuming I
> could spare the time.
>
> Encrypting password protection isn't hard either. I've done this
> before in such a way that the security was so interwoven and
> interdependent with the rest of the program that any attempt to
> break it would render the program inoperable or unpredictable.
>
> You can't really stop a pirate from selling your software if he
> wants to, though. It'll just get sold with the security keys
> intact. Requiring hardware protection (i.e. a dongle) makes the
> pirate's job harder, but dongles can be bypassed too.
>
> If you really want to protect your system but sell it at the same
> time, you might consider keeping it to yourself and issuing buy/sell
> signals on a web site. Then nobody has access to your software,
> only the output.
Use the win32 function GetVolumeInformation() to grab the serial
number of the c: drive. Send that serial number, along with the
id and password, to a server for authentication.
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