Adding Licensing mechanism to Assembler application

[en@frrom]

Hello all,

I am new at this forum and a newbie in Assembler. I have an application written in Assembly, and need to apply a licensing mechanism, i.e. the customer cannot run the program before activating a valid license key. The license key should be valid for one client-pc only.

I have no clue how to achieve this, but am sure there are exisitng freeware tools for this...? Any help/tip would be highly appreciated!

[Ehtyar]

You wish to use free software to place outrageous restrictions on your own...You'll have to forgive us if we are less than forthcoming....

Ehtyar.

[PBrennick]

en@frrom,
Plus, if you just started to learn assembly... well, you get the drift.

Ehtyar, very well said.

Paul

[Tedd]

If you have no clue to how to do this, then exactly how good is your application? It's not such a difficult task (making it hack-proof is a different matter..)
And if your app isn't that good, then no-one will want to steal/hack it anyway :P

[Ehtyar]

Also very well said. Quite disappointing that this kind of question is made as a member's first post.

Ehtyar.

[c_07]

Usually packers/protectors/licensing software etc. work with the compiled executable, so you should be able to use a generic one. Visit http://programmerstools.org/taxonomy/term/17 for a listing of them

[P1]

en@frrom,

Welcome Aboard   :U

What you may not realize yet.  Have you ever dis-assembled assembled code?

Then you start wondering what all that works was about.  There are hacks for the run of the mill copy protection on the internet already.  So the best thing is to trust your users, knowing that you get some support issues with copy protection, that gives your software the bad feedback.

Regards,  P1   :8)