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silver 10-11-2018 19:32

Anyone have used Computer license of IDA?
 
Recently I heard Hex-rays will not sell named licenses to company users. Instead, they need to buy computer license. According to the rules:

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Licensed to a specific machine, as many local users as one wants, provided only one of them uses the software at any given time.
However I want to know how they do this. I have a few possible ideas:
  1. collect hardware info when you buy it, and send it to Hex-rays for a license
  2. run the IDA with some "locked" license, the IDA will collect those hardware info, and "activate" the license
  3. send some broadcast messages, and frequently do check to Hex-rays servers to ensure only one copy with one computer ID is running at the same time

I have no computer licenses, and I can not get any binary, so I do not have any clues about if they used any of those 3 ideas, or they used neither. I just want to know how they managed to do this, so maybe I and my friends can use IDA happily again.

Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks.:D

UniSoft 10-11-2018 20:46

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Originally Posted by silver (Post 114996)
Recently I heard Hex-rays will not sell named licenses...

After leak of IDA7.0 they remove it from list...
But now it is available again
https://www.hex-rays.com/cgi-bin/quote.cgi?cmd=products

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Originally Posted by silver (Post 114996)
3. send some broadcast messages...

yup, even current version do this...

silver 10-11-2018 22:51

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But now it is available again
Yes, but due to some (human) limitation, I can only buy under a company's name, and they told me I can only use Computer/Floating license if buy under a company's name.

As for the broadcast message....I already removed it, just don't know if they have any special messages under computing license.

Anyway, the key problem is: does hex-rays use hardware-id for computer license?

Wondering someone with a computer license to reply to this thread...

ketan 10-12-2018 06:48

h*ttps://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/flexlm/

niculaita 10-12-2018 17:30

only mac address ? https://www.hex-rays.com/activate.shtml

silver 10-14-2018 20:43

Both
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Originally Posted by niculaita (Post 115004)
only mac address ? https://www.hex-rays.com/activate.shtml

and

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Originally Posted by ketan (Post 115001)
h*ttps://www.hex-rays.com/products/ida/support/flexlm/

are only works for floating license:

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License activation files are required only for floating licenses.


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