BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  licencing...          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Deployment View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message xkorakidis Guest Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 3:46 pm    Post subject: licencing... I developed an application in delphi7 & interbase and I would like to lock that in order to provide that only to authorized users (my customers) . I think that a good solution would be to find a method for cpu locking: to use a tool in order to find each customer's cpu id and then to rebuild the application and make a copy which works only with customer's cpu id. Any idea how can i find cpu's id? Any better idea for protection? Back to top Ben Hochstrasser Guest Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 6:07 am    Post subject: Re: licencing... xkorakidis wrote: Quote: Any idea how can i find cpu's id? Abandon this idea - no one I know has left cpuid enabled. (And in most BIOSes it is disabled by default) Quote: Any better idea for protection? Take the SID of eg the administrator, or create a special user during installation, find out his SID, transmit it to your unlocking server, send back an unlock code based on that SID. If the user deletes that user account, he must reinstall/relicense the software. Else there are tons of more or less commercial locking components "out there". -- Ben Back to top        BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Deployment All times are GMT Page 1 of 1 Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group .