Hi all,
BRIEF:
I am interested in finding out if there has been or ever will be a system for processing and managing software activation in a flash app.
DESCRIPTION:
My company develops alot in flash and flex and can already manage user access for online applications. but if I were to distribute a flash *.exe or an AIR app; are there offline serial key activation libraries available?
I have asked google and he/she says: "erm... naaah".
Flash is pretty easy to decompile, even from an exe I believe. This won't protect your software.
As SpliFF mentioned, it is fairly trivial to decompile SWF files, so you won't really want to store secure things there.
Also, I haven't personally used their product but Nitro-LM have presented at the 360|Flex conferences about their encryption / authentication software. It might fit your needs, it might not. First decent article I could find about it was on InsideRIA