Share Your Key - Share Your Costs - wibu-systems ag
Share Your Key - Share Your Costs - wibu-systems ag
Share Your Key - Share Your Costs - wibu-systems ag
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CASE STUDY<br />
However such a technology does not increase<br />
the security of the protected application. Instead<br />
of writing data, our customers use the following<br />
methods:<br />
During the development process, data is<br />
encrypted and then stored into the source<br />
text.<br />
This data is decrypted during the runtime<br />
and then used.<br />
This even permits you to change the key to<br />
decrypt the data during runtime. By such<br />
changes, the same location in your software<br />
sends different sequences to the CmStick, which<br />
inhibits a crack by simulation with a recordplayback<br />
attack.<br />
Reading License Information<br />
Today, do you write a license number into the<br />
dongle and read it back during runtime? Then,<br />
depending on this number, do you activate specifi<br />
c modules or control the number of licenses<br />
in the network?<br />
This is also possible with CodeMeter. But with<br />
your current dongle, you have more effort and<br />
less security. Such features are supported directly<br />
by CodeMeter and permanently enhanced. A<br />
radical “break away from the past” change to<br />
CodeMeter is in the long run always cheaper<br />
than creating your own license schema to a<br />
“I just write an ID” dongle. Keep your license<br />
schema simple and secure and use the knowledge<br />
we learned from more than 50 migrations<br />
to CodeMeter, alone, in Germany, in the last<br />
six months.<br />
Programming the Dongles<br />
Again, CodeMeter provides you with full fl exibility:<br />
With CmProducer you have a simple but<br />
powerful data base application to program<br />
the CmSticks. A programming API and command<br />
line tools extend the CmProducer – it<br />
will be always easy and effi cient to integrate<br />
the programming of the CmSticks into your<br />
own operations.<br />
Exchange Legacy Dongles<br />
in the Field<br />
Our experience shows that a complete exchange<br />
of all existing dongles in the fi eld with Cm-<br />
Sticks can be a sensible solution. This is the<br />
favorite decision for customers who switched<br />
to CodeMeter for security reasons and at the<br />
same time released a new main version of<br />
their software.<br />
Other customers decided to go the smooth<br />
“step by step” route and protect the current<br />
version with CodeMeter, but will continue to<br />
support their existing customers who already<br />
have the previous dongle. The problem is that<br />
the old solution is the weak link in the whole<br />
security chain – therefore the support for the<br />
old dongle should end with one of the next<br />
version releases.<br />
Sometimes even the user – your customer<br />
– wants you change to CodeMeter. Why?<br />
CodeMeter is attractive for a lot of users because<br />
the CmStick can come bundled with a<br />
Personal Security Suite of applications that will<br />
make the user’s computer life more secure, for<br />
example: The CodeMeter Password Man<strong>ag</strong>er.<br />
In this case, the user buys his or her CmStick<br />
and you simply provide the license, which can<br />
be transferred for a small fee into this CmStick.<br />
Optionally the Password man<strong>ag</strong>er can also be<br />
adapted to your Corporate Design.<br />
Customer Endorsement<br />
EverFocus ® Electronics AG<br />
Emmerich am Rhein<br />
Dipl.-Inf. (FH) Ingo Jansen<br />
(R&D / IT Man<strong>ag</strong>er):<br />
“EverFocus already had an<br />
excellent experience with<br />
Wibu<strong>Key</strong> as our fi rst software<br />
protection system. We switched to CodeMeter<br />
because of its fl exibility and effi ciency, whereby<br />
we could integrate network license models<br />
just as simply as single-user license models<br />
into our software. We also liked the remote<br />
programming features of CodeMeter, which<br />
allowed us to keep our customers happy and<br />
have an effective worldwide license man<strong>ag</strong>ement<br />
system at the same time. “<br />
SOFiSTiK AG<br />
Oberschleissheim<br />
Dr.-Ing. Casimir Katz<br />
(CTO Member of the Board):<br />
“We decided, above all other considerations, to<br />
switch our software protection to CodeMeter,<br />
because of the substantial and sophisticated<br />
license man<strong>ag</strong>ement features. We were impressed<br />
by the automatic release of licenses<br />
from crashed programs; also by the ability to<br />
combine network licenses with an expiration<br />
date; and especially by the ability to completely<br />
re-program a dongle, already delivered<br />
to a customer. The uniform appearance under<br />
Windows and Linux, especially the support for<br />
64-bit operating <strong>systems</strong> were also important<br />
reasons for our decision.<br />
The fact that all CodeMeter dongles are the<br />
same, and that they are available from worldwide<br />
distributors, makes it possible to save time<br />
money when dealing customs. The extraordinary<br />
high quality of WIBU-SYSTEMS’ support, before<br />
and after we became a customer, together with<br />
secure and fl exible remote programming, has<br />
convinced us that we made the right decision<br />
with CodeMeter.”<br />
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