More software companies are moving to protect their products through some form of activation process as the cost of piracy rises above US$33 billion worldwide, according to the Business Software ...

The system employs HMAC-SHA256 (Hash-based Message Authentication Code using SHA-256) for license integrity verification. SHA-256 refers to the Secure Hash Algorithm producing 256-bit hash values (see ...

Office 2010 will now use Key Management Service (KMS) to activate your product, further simplifying the installation process of Office 2010. KMS eliminates the need to manually enter license codes ...

The Software Licensing Service reported that the license could not be found or was invalid. The error code usually means that the user entered the wrong license key ...