Erik.Kerber
Joined: 22 Dec 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Minnesota
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Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 10:08 pm Post subject: Creating Short(er) License Strings |
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Greetings,
We are using ILS to create encrypted codes that will be used for enabling various features in our software. Our demographics and business model require us to be able to relay these encrypted codes over the phone, so the length and consistency of the code is an important factor. In it's current implementation, the shortest encrypted code that ILS produces is 32 characters... more than our product management team will allow.
Our goal is to have 10-20 a character code with minimal amounts of product data (~ 6 bytes). We were able to modify the source code to allow it to be passed a byte array over a string, and get the code length down to 13/16 for base32/hex. This, however, would skip over the encryption of product data and the password.
Is this the best/only method to create a shorter encrypted string? Or can somebody recommend another approach that does not involve removing the encryption of the product password?
Any help is much appreciated. |
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