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- From: noah@apple.com (Noah Price)
- Subject: Re: Macintosh Doggles...
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:24:57 GMT
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- In article <C1F0wG.FF6@world.std.com>, howlett@world.std.com (Joseph S
- Howlett) wrote:
- > I managed to completely break one dongle's protection scheme in a fairly
- > general way in just a couple of afternoons of playing with some trap patches.
- > I did this to prove to the company I work for that we should discontinue our
- > reliance on a dongle protection scheme for our software products.
-
- Newer ones actually put intelligence out in the dongle. Nothing's
- foolproof, but if some algorithm your program depends on is actually
- implemented in the dongle, or if some data is decrypted by passing it
- through the dongle, things are much more secure.
-
- noah
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