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Ask HN: Insights into securely distributing binaries (call home)?
Say I have an application I would like to sell, for the sake of argument a war or a jar. I want to sell a license s.t. each registered user can only run on N machines simultaneously. I'm thinking of a call home where some secure sessions are negotiated and binaries can stop running if they are not authorized. I'm sure there is a lot of work on this area, can someone point me at the generally accepted techniques?
- fragmede 17y agoThere are various proprietary solutions to this, and for better or worse, flexlm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexNet_Publisher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FlexNet_Publisher) is the first that comes to my mind.
- keefe 17y agonice, it's a starting point for research anyway, thx
- lann 17y agoIn case this isn't obvious: expect whatever protection you employ to be cracked if your product is ever successful (and maybe even if it isn't).
- keefe 17y agoI'm thinking... reasonably difficult to crack