Logicnp Cracked
Controls And Components For Windows Explorer Like File and Folder Browser Functionality In Your App. Drop-In Controls Can Be Put Right Inside Your Own Forms/Dialogs. This article shows how to use CryptoLicensing - a licensing and copy-protection system form LogicNP Software - to implement effective defenses against hackers and. Obfuscation with Crypto Obfuscator by LogicNP; Author. It even fails if it notices you are trying to crack the. Crypto Obfuscator Evaluation alternative.
I want to sell software developed in c# to end-users and want to use licensing with a yearly fee for this. I have never used licensing, so I'm completely clueless about this and don't want to reinvent everything myself, but rather spend some money and use a commercial licensing solution.
After comparing a lot of different options I thought of giving CryptoLicensing a try, but due to the following post I'm kind of cautious: ) While I haven't tried cracking it myself, I'm afraid that it's a little too easy to crack. I'm completely aware that no solution is 100% safe but this almost sounds like a general crack for anything that uses cryptolicensing. I thought that I still have to integrate a commercial licensing solution into my software and can make it harder or easier to crack depending on my way of integration.
Is the last statement correct in general?. Is it still true for crypto even though this crack exists or does it make each crypto-protected piece of software equally easy to crack?. Is this crack a problem at all or can I use CryptoLicensing and be very well protected?. Any specific license solution suggestions (should be in the same price-range) or experiences for my use-case are welcome. (Please no discussion if I should use licensing at all or if the yearly fee-option is a good idea thx;-) ) Thanks to everyone who took the time to read this. Closed as off-topic by, Jun 7 '15 at 4:10 This question appears to be off-topic.
The users who voted to close gave this specific reason:. 'Questions asking us to recommend or find a book, tool, software library, tutorial or other off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, and what has been done so far to solve it.' – JasonMArcher, Pang, cpburnz, bgilham, Infinite Recursion If this question can be reworded to fit the rules in the, please. I'll chime in. I sold downloadable software on-line for over 10 years. Every title is still out there.
On the Warez, Crackz and Serialz sites! Yep, each title magically turned itself into freeware without my permission.
There was nothing I could do to stop it (and I tried EVERYTHING). If you have software of value, it WILL get cracked. Worse, when a potential user does a Google search for the EXACT TITLE of your software, and your Google listing in on page 2 of the results, and page 1 is filled with ways to get the software pirated for free, and all of your SEO efforts are no match for the hacker sites, your revenue stream is basically over. Sorry for the grim picture, but I've been there. No matter how smart you are, the crackers are right there with you. And it's more profitable for them to crack your warez than it is for you to develop, market and support it. Sad but true.
If Adobe and Microsoft and their multi-million-dollar efforts can't solve this one, there is little chance for the rest of us. Is there ANY possible way for you to take your software and turn it into a software-as-a-service offering? Can you put some (or all) of the functionality 'in the cloud'? Basically, if you can avoid putting the software actually ON a hacker's machine, right next to their Black Ice, you will be doing yourself a HUGE favor in the long run. The best solution I've found to software piracy is to run the software on a well-secured server, and sell access to it.
As soon as you allow the software onto even just one other computer, it's the beginning of the end. @Flipster - thanks for your answer and opinion. Sorry to see you fight the black market and lose.
It's the same with everything else in the world: e.g. Cafes who pay cash in hand and don't pay tax out compete legit enterprises who do etc. I am expecting a good hacker to spend a little effort and time cracking it. I want people to pay for that effort.
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I want to make it a little difficult.do you have an opinion on the OP's question given that? Answer will be appreciated. Chrs – Mar 4 '16 at 22:29. I have no experience using CryptoLicensing or other licensing frameworks, so I can only offer my 2c worth as a developer and end-user of commercial software.
If CryptoLicensing, or other frameworks does the basic job that you need - that is: handling recurring payments, licensing, activation, etc - then pick the one that is the easiest for end-users and yourself to use. If a user is willing to go searching for cracks, then they're exceedingly unlikely to ever pay for your software. The less time and energy you spend in fighting people who will never pay, is time and energy you can invest in providing better software for legitimate paying users. Specificaly, in reference to your first question: Yes, you can make it more difficult for someone to bypass your licencing restrictions. You need to consider the costs versus potential benefit of this though. Is someone who's willing to invest their time into cracking your software going to actually send you money? I'd think not.
Yes, you can go into ensuring that it's difficult to attach a debugger, or deter reverse engineering - but this will make your job (of debugging and identifying real customer faults) more difficult. Assuming the licensing framework doesn't allow entering all 0's or 1's, or simply hitting 'Skip' - then it's probably doing the job of keeping honest people out. Disclaimer: I work for a company that produces license management and software protection systems (see my profile for links). It is dead WRONG that you can not make a system uncrackable. However, it's probably correct to say that you can't do this without an external hardware device (dongle-see our CodeMeter CmStick or SafeNet's Hasp HL). We have and will continue to give the public a chance to crack our protection (with a significant prize for success) and so far nobody's been able to do it. But again, if you're looking for a software-only solution you can slow them down but not defeat them.
Microsoft and Adobe don't want to ship a hardware device (because of the additional cost and complexity of fufillment) so they resort to a software-only activation/protection scheme that has and will continue to be cracked. The US piracy rates are as low as anywhere in the world so even companies who use dongles sometimes only use them in high-risk markets (China, Ukraine, etc) and ship a software-only system in the US and Canada. Good protection systems give you the choice of software or hardware without jumping through hoops. Remember that protection is like locks on your doors: more protection can cost more, but also reduce theft. It's a tradeoff that you and only you as the ISV can decide on. In general, there is no such thing as an uncrackable system, if anybody claims this, they are ignorant or lying.
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Your aim should not be to look for an uncrackable system becuase such a system does not exist. Your aim should be to use a easy-to-use, affordable system which offers reasonably strong protection, so that you do not have to spend time on the licensing/obfuscation part of your software but instead can concentrate on the core functionality of your software. Further: See tips and tricks at - we implement them for Crypto Obfuscator and CryptoLicensing too, so anybody using a cracked version are in for a surprise.
We highly recommend that you use at least some of these tips and guidelines.