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Asked: 2026-05-22T23:08:25+00:00

I’ve got a site where users extend their product trial with a registration code.

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I’ve got a site where users extend their product trial with a registration code. They click a link (with a key in the URL) from an email, get to this site and a lightbox appears with their registration code. I’m currently displaying the registration code with HTML and hiding it with CSS. Once I check to make sure the URL has the correct key with javascript, I display the registration code. However, this means anyone can just view source on the page and copy the registration code. Is there a way to encrypt the code so it doesn’t appear in view source, and then decrypt it if the URL has the correct key? It’s one code per product, not per user, so I don’t have to do any server side authentication.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If the computer knows it, the user knows it.

    You can play obfuscation games, all of which amount to making your Javascript hard to read. But a sufficiently determined user will find it anyway, and once they do, they can easily share it with their friends.

    One code per user is the only way to fix this reliably.

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