[ACP-456]  Serial key format
Type Quirk
Priority Low
Severity Trivial
Component Main Program, Registration Component
Fixed In Version [6.0] 6.0
Versions Affected [5.1.11] 5.1 Hot Fix 11
Severity Closed
Resolution Complete
Reported By Bob Denny
Resources Bob Denny
Start Date 9/27/2010

Description 
Once in a blue moon, email (Gmail) mangles the license. I just ran into this on a license that has -o%6%- in it. It got turned into -o9wF$rsyh%- by GMail! Looks like their email system is sensitive to C++ format strings. The %6 got turned into some trash that happened to be on the stack, like it was a printf() format thing. 







In the end, the license strings I use are too baroque. Look at accepting an alternate format which consists of letters and numbers only, using lower case letters to avoid confusion between numbers and letters. No punctuation symbols. Output in groups of 4 letters.

Comments
9/28/2010 10:05:50 AM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/acp
 

 

  SVN Revision
  80
 

 

  Affected files
  /trunk/ACP Help/relnotes.htm (Modified)
/trunk/ACP.vbp (Modified)
/trunk/Main.bas (Modified)
/trunk/WebDocs (Modified)
/trunk/frmRegister.frm (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Completed. ACP can now use both old and new license key formats. Tested with new license key generator. 
GEM:456
9/28/2010 9:46:24 AM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/acp
 

 

  SVN Revision
  79
 

 

  Affected files
  /trunk/SerialGen/sergen.exe (Modified)
/trunk/SerialGen/sergen.frm (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Oops, forgot to remove layout string from serial field of serial generator.
GEM:456
9/28/2010 9:40:23 AM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/astro/acp
 

 

  SVN Revision
  78
 

 

  Affected files
  /trunk/SerialGen/sergen.exe (Modified)
/trunk/SerialGen/sergen.frm (Modified)
/trunk/SerialGen/sergen.vbp (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Serial generator upgraded for old and new formats
GEM:456
9/28/2010 9:29:44 AM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/etc
 

 

  SVN Revision
  161
 

 

  Affected files
  /dc3reg/trunk/Engine.cpp (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/TestEncode.js (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/TestEncode2.js (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/b32encode.cpp (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/b32encode.h (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.h (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.tlb (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj.filters (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj.user (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg_i.c (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg_p.c (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Completed DC3Reg engine 2.0.1 with new Generate2() and Check2() methods. 
GEM:456
9/27/2010 9:20:07 PM   Bob Denny 
Using Base32 encoding to encode 120 bits of the MD5 to 24 characters, 6 groups of 4. Will use the z-base32 alphabet, lower case letters so no confusion between letters and numbers.
9/27/2010 9:11:19 PM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/etc
 

 

  SVN Revision
  160
 

 

  Affected files
  /dc3reg/trunk/Engine.cpp (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.h (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.tlb (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj.filters (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg_i.c (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg_p.c (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Base32 encoding, new methods Generate2() and Check2 exposed to COM. Partially completed.
GEM:456
9/27/2010 6:36:21 PM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/etc
 

 

  SVN Revision
  159
 

 

  Affected files
  /dc3reg/trunk/Engine.cpp (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/Engine.h (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/Engine.rgs (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.h (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.idl (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.tlb (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj.filters (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg_i.c (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg_p.c (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Now has new IDL, methods Generate2() and Check2(), which are stubbed out but function from COM. Will be used for new format serial strings.
GEM:456
9/27/2010 5:39:41 PM   Bob Denny 

 

  SVN Comment
 

 

  Author
  rbdenny
 

 

  Repository
  svn+ssh://rbdenny@a2_svn_dc3/home/rbdenny/svn/etc
 

 

  SVN Revision
  158
 

 

  Affected files
  /dc3reg/trunk (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/StdAfx.cpp (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/StdAfx.h (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/Test/test.exe (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/Test/test.vbp (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/Test/test.vbw (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.aps (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.def (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.dsp (Deleted)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.dsw (Deleted)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.rc (Modified)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.sln (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj.filters (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/dc3reg.vcxproj.user (Added)
/dc3reg/trunk/md5_dgst.c (Modified)

 

 

  Check-in comment
  Migrate this engine to VS2010 in preparation for changing the license encoding scheme. The ATL usage is ancient!
GEM:456
9/27/2010 4:55:17 PM   Bob Denny 
This percolates through other things, like the generator for keys in the Software Store.