Collaborate Disseminate
As of this week, players who owned a legitimate copy of Tron: Evolution they paid for but never played it, no longer can. From a report: Tron: Evolution, a tie-in game for the 2010 Tron: Legacy film, used SecurRom, a form of digital rights management (… Continue reading The Curse of Outdated DRM Claims Another Vicim, ‘Tron: Evolution’
I am quite familiar with most of the common undergrad/grad security foundations; but I couldn’t find anything related to this scenario:
A scheme/system where a piece of data can only be ‘decrypted’ AND read only once (pot… Continue reading Schemes/ Mechanisms that could provide one time decryption?
Is it possible to encrypt data server side and then decrypt it client side; without the client having the ability to encrypt the data themselves after decrypting?
I’m working on a license manager which needs to be able to re… Continue reading Server encryption, client decryption, without the client having the ability to encrypt?
First I don’t want to promote any kind of pirated software here, just don’t know where and how to ask this question.
I find out crackers share games released on GOG (which are DRM free), it’s interesting that executables are… Continue reading Should I trust signed GOG games, which are not original?
We have an AI model which needs to be deployed on premise. The hardware will be provided by us, so we can do what ever we want on the device. The device is a mini PC running Ubuntu 18.04.
The UI is launched in kiosk mode so… Continue reading How to use FDE without needing to share the encryption password
Suppose I want to give a computer to someone that runs an application. I want to avoid that the program can be copied to another computer or be tampered with. For that, I want to encrypt the folder that contains the program a… Continue reading Encrypt folder on Linux that can only be decrypted on that specific OS and device
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How to use TPM to identify a computer for licensing purposes?
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I wrote a VCL app using Delphi10.2. It has a simple activation setup, encrypted key is stored in Kinvey backend. The key to decrypt the encrypted key is hidden in the source code.
Now in order to establish the HTTPS connecti… Continue reading Securing Delphi application SSL traffic from decryption
I and a friend are developing a web game. The front-end to back-end communication will be carried out by the means of an API.
We realized that someone could then easily hook up to our API and make a clone that uses our API…. Continue reading How to protect HMAC key embedded in code from someone who would copy entire source?
Cory Doctorow writes at BoingBoing:
“The books will stop working”: That’s the substance of the reminder that Microsoft sent to customers for their ebook store, reminding them that, as announced in April, the company is getting out of the ebook business… Continue reading Microsoft Store’s eBooks Will Soon ‘Stop Working’ When It Closes Their DRM Server