Hi Harold and all, The following message was sent by "Harold Thimm" <haroldthimmat_private> on Mon, 04 Jun 2001 19:43:35 -0000: > I'm looking for any information on incorporating dongles into a > software package for copy protection. In particular, I'm looking for > information on the Rainbow Technologies Sentinel, but advice on > dongle-based copy protection in general is appreciated. OK, you asked for it ... if you take a look at "The futility of digital copy prevention" (http://www.counterpane.com/crypto-gram-0105.html#3) you'll have a look at it. > How easy/difficult is it to break this kind of copy-protection? > Are there any known weaknesses in the dongle-type systems themselves > (as opposed to implementation weaknesses?) One thing that can be done is look at the dongle as a black box, monitor the answers to the stimuli, and build a software piece that can trap these stmuli and perform like the dongle (just a thought). BTW, have you made a search in http://www.phrack.com or any other search engine ?? Perhaps using "dongle" or "copy protection" you'll have some good look. Cheers -- Victor A. Rodriguez (http://www.bit-man.com.ar) El bit Fantasma (Bit-Man) "aMail: a lot of fun in a bunch of Perl scripts"
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