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Chapter 2 – Sentinel Hardware Keys SDK Components
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bytes. SHK XM allows you to program licenses of a size as much as
4080 bytes. This provides the following benefits:
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More licenses —You can design 7-8 licenses of 2032 bytes each,
at the License Manager stage of the Toolkit.
More features per license—You can add more number of
features in your license.
The above capabilities of SHK XM can be utilized to create advanced and
robust protection strategies of larger size.
Sentinel Dual Hardware Keys
Sentinel Dual Hardware Keys provide migration platform for Sentinel Ultra-
Pro and Sentinel SuperPro developers and customers to the much-advanced
Sentinel Hardware Keys. Sentinel Dual Hardware Keys are available in USB
form factor with the following two flavors:
Sentinel Dual Hardware Keys for UltraPro: Meant for Sentinel
UltraPro-based developers and customers
Sentinel Dual Hardware Keys for SuperPro: Meant for Sentinel
SuperPro-based developers and customers
Refer to “Migration from SuperPro and UltraPro” on page 279 for more
details.
Sentinel Keys Server
The Sentinel Keys Server manages the licenses available with the Sentinel
Keys attached to a system.
It maintains a database of the Sentinel Keys attached to a networked system
and handles the availability, maintenance, sharing, and cancellation of
licenses for its clients. It must be redistributed with your network applications.
A few of its important characteristics are given below:
The Sentinel Keys Server is available across platforms. For example,
Sentinel Keys attached to a Windows system can be accessed by a
protected application running on Linux and vice-versa.