Software with Armadillo Protection

[rsh]

Hi 

 

My software used Armadillo for protection and as you know, it has been discontinued. 

I would like to read existing customer's keys from the registry and check if he is a registered user, so I can move existing customers to a new licensing system (undecided). can anyone please let me know how I can do it? 

 

thanks 

Edited October 18, 2014 by rsh

[mrexodia]

I wouldn't do this if I were you, it's better to create an extra executable that uses the original armadillo protection, from there register your new software if a valid key was found.

Greetings

[rsh]

Thanks Mr. eXoDia for your reply. 

 

Hopefully Armadillo executable will continue to work when Windows 10 is released.

 

We need to show a trial dialog at startup. Communicating with an Armadillo executable will cause some delay in program startup. Or we can wait for the message and show the trial dialog later, but that will be annoying.

 

So I guess there is no way to read and check keys then? 

Edited October 20, 2014 by rsh

[mrexodia]

rsh: There is no direct way of reading the keys, like I said before, you could also protect a DLL with Armadillo and link that to your application. This DLL then reads and returns the installed Armadillo keys.

Greetings

[kao]

it's better to create an extra executable that uses the original armadillo protection, from there register your new software if a valid key was found.

Bad idea. This means you'll be releasing keygen to your new software to the world. And possible compatibility issues with Win10 and what not.

 

You don't have a list of all registered users? That's strange.. Anyway, probably the best way would to implement a webpage, where registered user can enter his email + old.reg.code and get download link for new version + new reg.code. This way you can have serial numbers validated on server side using Armadillo SDK - no compatibility issues, no giving out keygen, and you will get a list of all upgraded users automatically.

[rsh]

Thank you for your replies.

 

So there is no way to read the keys

 

We were hoping not to use a webpage, but that seems the only way out.

 

thanks to all.

[CondZero]

 

 

So there is no way to read the keys 

Well this statement isn't entirely true. There are programs like Trashreg which read / delete the Armadillo registry entries / keys as well as other protections.