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    • Casey KolbC
      Casey Kolb
      last edited by Casey Kolb

      It's actually not generated at the opening. I only generate it when the user first enters their license key, which I then validate with my website's server. If the server response is successful, then I make the file. Every time after that, just check the file again, but don't regenerate it.

      Casey Kolb
      Founder & CEO of Lunacy Audio
      Composer | Producer | Software Developer

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      • dejansD
        dejans
        last edited by dejans

        @Lunacy-Audio @ustk Yep, I'm also using this approach but only to encrypt the registration details file. This can be easily decrypted when the machine id generator code is found/cracked. But the interesting and creative part is that you can hide, let's say some kind of token in the license.dat. It can be a single character at a certain place in the serial, for example. Then at certain points, or based on user activity you do checks for that token (f.e. when a user moves a filter cutoff, you check if lfo is active && the plugin is running at least for 2 hours && token is not valid, then trigger a notification, mute the output, delete the license.dat or do whatever... The point is to make a couple of these checks that happen sparsely. Eventually, it'll be cracked, but hopefully, you can delay the crack long enough to convert a number of pirate users to legitimate ones...

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        • Casey KolbC
          Casey Kolb
          last edited by

          That's interesting for sure. I'll need to dive deeper into that and add some more checks. Thanks!

          Casey Kolb
          Founder & CEO of Lunacy Audio
          Composer | Producer | Software Developer

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          • ustkU
            ustk @Casey Kolb
            last edited by

            @Lunacy-Audio I have approximately the same process added with a limited number of activations/machines, machine ID, and strong encryption to generate a license file.
            About the time check, I can try to add an API...

            Can't help pressing F5 in the forum...

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            • Casey KolbC
              Casey Kolb @ustk
              last edited by

              @ustk Would be appreciated!

              Casey Kolb
              Founder & CEO of Lunacy Audio
              Composer | Producer | Software Developer

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                LeeC @ustk
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                @ustk yeah that would be ace... Much appreciated!

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                • ustkU
                  ustk @Casey Kolb
                  last edited by ustk

                  Guys, does having the number of days since 1970 fit your needs?

                  Do you prefer the system date? or anything?

                  In what format? days, hours, sec, ms, string date...

                  or an object with everything but I don't know if I am able to do that..

                  Can't help pressing F5 in the forum...

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                  • Casey KolbC
                    Casey Kolb @ustk
                    last edited by

                    @ustk I think just being able to grab the current system date and time is super useful. Maybe something like Engine.getSystemDate() returns

                    {
                      year: 2020,
                      month: 11,
                      day: 19,
                      hour: 14,
                      minute: 55,
                      second: 32
                    }
                    

                    πŸ€” But I'm sure there's a better way of returning it. This isn't my forte haha.

                    Casey Kolb
                    Founder & CEO of Lunacy Audio
                    Composer | Producer | Software Developer

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                    • Christoph HartC
                      Christoph Hart
                      last edited by

                      I would suggest to not go down the rabbit hole of trying to outsmart a imaginary cracker. Just make sure your plugin canβ€˜t be copied to multiple machines by a simple user and leave the rest to companies who sell usb dongles for a living...

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                      • ustkU
                        ustk @Casey Kolb
                        last edited by

                        @Lunacy-Audio The juce Time class allows everything we need so it is just a matter of what we need and I'll find a way to make the API
                        Currently, I've made one that gives the number of days since 1970. I've just made a simple conversion since it is originally in milliseconds...

                        Can't help pressing F5 in the forum...

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                        • Casey KolbC
                          Casey Kolb
                          last edited by

                          Sounds reasonable πŸ˜€

                          Casey Kolb
                          Founder & CEO of Lunacy Audio
                          Composer | Producer | Software Developer

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                          • ustkU
                            ustk @Casey Kolb
                            last edited by ustk

                            @Lunacy-Audio What sounds reasonable? ☺

                            Can't help pressing F5 in the forum...

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                            • Casey KolbC
                              Casey Kolb
                              last edited by

                              The number of days since 1970. Also, the addition of the function I mentioned above would be great too, but no rush.

                              Casey Kolb
                              Founder & CEO of Lunacy Audio
                              Composer | Producer | Software Developer

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                                LeeC @ustk
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                                @ustk The time since 1970 and also any format of system date would be great for now.
                                If it's too tricky to pull back an object with the attributes that @Lunacy-Audio suggested then a simple string would be useful too.

                                Appreciate you looking into this for us 🌟
                                I'm sure it will come in handy for other HISE things outside of copy protection also.

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                                • ustkU
                                  ustk @Casey Kolb
                                  last edited by ustk

                                  Ok guys I've added the Engine.getSystemTime(bool includeDividerCharacters) API from Juce
                                  it returns a fully described string of the date and time in ISO-8601 format (using the local timezone) with or without divider characters.
                                  It is up to you @Christoph-Hart to merge it of course, but if you find it unnecessary, the mod is easy for anyone interested...

                                  // Returns a string with separator:
                                  2020-11-21T16:07:08.525+01:00
                                  
                                  // Or without separator
                                  20201121T160708.525+0100
                                  

                                  Can't help pressing F5 in the forum...

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                                  • dejansD
                                    dejans @ustk
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                                    @ustk Thank You!

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                                      LeeC @ustk
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                                      @ustk Legend thanks!

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                                      • Casey KolbC
                                        Casey Kolb @ustk
                                        last edited by

                                        @ustk Woo! Thanks man.

                                        Casey Kolb
                                        Founder & CEO of Lunacy Audio
                                        Composer | Producer | Software Developer

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                                          LeeC
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                                          @Christoph-Hart is it possible to get this merged?
                                          Cheers

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                                            LeeC
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                                            @d-healey are you still maintaining a branch that we could potentially merge this change made by @ustk to?
                                            Desperate to make use of this 'Date Logic' but don't want to pester the man (@Christoph-Hart) anymore than we need to.

                                            Cheers

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