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Chapter 6 – Secure Remote Updates
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The table below quickly compares the Secure Update Wizard and Secure
Update Utility to help you in choosing the method that suits your needs best:
Secure Update Wizard Secure Update Utility
Wizard-based and graphical. You can
customize the user-interface, instructions,
and include custom graphics,
like a splash screen.
Localization-ready.
Best suited for try-and-buy applications
that use expiration date, time,
and execution count.
It can be integrated with your protected
application (as described in the
Sentinel Keys Toolkit Help).
Since it is installed with the protected
application, your customers can use it
for updating stand-alone keys.
Available only for Windows.
Remote Update API
Compact and ready-to-use
(requires no configuration).
Suitable for updating the hardware
key memory and features
with all the action types defined
on page 157. It can also be used
for incrementing the counter
programmed into distributor
keys.
Can be shipped as an independent
utility. See also, “Deploying
Secure Update Utility” on
page 228.
Can be used for updating standalone
or network keys.
Available for all supported platforms
on Windows, Linux, and
Macintosh.
A developer may instead create a customized remote update option using
the Secure Update API functions implemented in SecureUpdate.h. It is available
at the following path in your Sentinel Keys SDK installation:
For Windows: \Secure Update\Secure Update Utility\INTF.
Please note that separate libraries are provided for Windows 32-bit
and x64.
For Linux: /secure_update/SecureUpdateUtility/INTF/
For Macintosh: /Secure Update/Secure Update Utility/INTF/