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Re: Change HostID - How ??

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From: waltrip
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 02:32
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In article <1992Aug21.135516.10733@ni.umd.edu>, louie@sayshell.umd.edu (Louis 
A. Mamakos) writes:
	[...material deleted...]
> - It wasn't as much a pain in the $#@% to maintain and register
> software that depends on using hostids as copy protection.  I think
> that this mechanism needs to be replaced with something like a public
> key cryptosystem scheme that would be useful for other things, too.
	Amen.

c.f.waltrip

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