Sybren Stuvel wrote: > Mike Playle enlightened us with: > >>Imagine you're an IT manager for a medium-to-large company who wants >>to use some expensive piece of software. You talk to the vendor and >>buy a licence to use the software on up to 5 machines at once, but >>you don't know who in the company will want to use it, so for >>convenience you want to install it on every PC in the building. >> >>Having installed it all over the shop, how can you be sure that only >>5 people are using it at any one time? > > > Write the software in such a way that it needs a certificate on a > smartcard, then supply the company with five smartcards. > And you guarantee that the contents of the smartcard is only used by one user at a time by building a licensing system for the smartcards?
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