secure storage

[ljonny18]

hi,

is there some sort of Secure Storage built into AIR to for example, when an application is installed for the first time store some sort of marker that can be checked against to see if it has been installed, even if the application is uninstalled and reinstalled again etc.

for example to use for an activation / licensing system.

if not, does anyone have any ideas of a method to do this sort of check???

any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jon.

[ljonny18]

hi,

is there some sort of Secure Storage built into AIR to for example, when an application is installed for the first time store some sort of marker that can be checked against to see if it has been installed, even if the application is uninstalled and reinstalled again etc.

for example to use for an activation / licensing system.

if not, does anyone have any ideas of a method to do this sort of check???

any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Jon.

[evride]

well theres the EncryptedLocalStore but im not sure if data is retained in that after uninstall. you would just save a var in the ELS on first program run. you could also create a file and keep it in the applicationStorageDirectory but then people would be able to delete it. i would use one of those things and combine it with online registering.

update:yes data does seem to be retained in the EncryptedLocalStore after uninstall/reinstall.

[malczak]

hi, i took this from air langref

When you uninstall an AIR application, the uninstaller does not delete data stored in the encrypted local store.

but user cam still remove ELS data, because its stored in users application local dictionary (windows)