Handmark DRM

[rcp]

Does anyone have any experience with using Handmark's DRM. It is a rather simplistic method and seems ripe for hacking... this makes us more than a little nervous about entrusting our application with them. Anyone using Handmark for distribution and using their DRM... has it been cracked yet... etc?

[sponge]

As far as I know (which at this point is relatively outdated, so keep that in mind) the only effective protection has been DEXplor and the method that the folks formerly of int13 used.

[Dan East]

My protection was circumvented because of a weakness I did not want to dedicate time to eliminate. It would have further delayed the initial release. Eventually someone (very familiar with software development, obviously) found a certain temp file (the unencrypted version of the user's "registration key") that DEXplor creates every time it runs, and the rest was pretty easy hacking. I decided it wouldn't be worth my time to patch it. It's not like having better protection would actually make someone want to (or be able to) buy my software.

Dan East