Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!w6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Jason Bodine Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc Subject: How are sequential serial numbers/CD keys generated in distributed software? Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 16:59:12 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 12 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.18.107.250 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1302825552 6033 127.0.0.1 (14 Apr 2011 23:59:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 23:59:12 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w6g2000vbo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.18.107.250; posting-account=u883mQoAAADgJOO3LwRdSIS5-j253ZRx User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0,gzip(gfe) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.basic.visual.misc:78 Hi all, This is just a curiosity question, lol, but we've all bought software and had to enter a unique CD Key and/or serial number to install and/ or activate it. My question is: How are these added to the program, because the only way I can think to do it would create only one CD Key/ Serial Number for *all* copies of the app! I'm using VB6 Enterprise Edition, and would like to make my apps distributable on CD in this fashion. Thanks! Jason