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From: OBERMAN@ICDC.LLNL.GOV ("Kevin Oberman, LLNL, 422-6955", 415)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: Software protection
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Date: 6 Jul 88 16:07:00 GMT
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>Now that I've demolished one suggestion, let me provide another:  do any
>of you know whether the new License Management Facility has space reserved
>for third parties, so that we can use it to protect/manage our own stuff
>as well as DEC's?  I imagine that this would require registration with DEC,
>just like for facility codes in condition longwords, but that should be no
>problem for a commercial product.  I wonder if the key-recognition algorithm
>is secure enough that the key-*generation* software can be widely distributed?

I have been told that DEC intends to make the VMS LMF available to third
parties at some time. To the best of my knowledge there is as yet no actual
commitment from DEC, though.

					R. Kevin Oberman
					Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
					Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov
   					(415) 422-6955

Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing
and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.