lol, re-reading this i thought about how a crack i saw works. Like how you stated that the program would send a random code to be4 deciphered by the programer? RMXP, Adobe Acrobat, and Photo Shop CS4 all do a similar attempt at retraining a randomly generated code and bouncing it off a server for the serial to use said software. But yet each one on the piracy side have working cracks that simply use the random code spit threw the algorithm you made that takes the random code and responds with the serial key. Piracy is looking unavoidable, least for a while. :/