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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P R O D U C T<br />
unique cryptographic methods; only you have<br />
the key to unlock this container.<br />
Overview for the Provider<br />
Each license has visible and invisible parts. In<br />
the visible parts of the license container you<br />
can write your company name (and for each<br />
product, the product name).<br />
Using the CodeMeter WebAdmin tool, even<br />
the users can see which licenses are stored<br />
in their CmSticks. But the security and the encrypted<br />
license is found only in the invisible or<br />
hidden part.<br />
“locked” or not. And you can check the locking<br />
list frequently to see that lost CmSticks are also<br />
really defi ned as lost – even if they unexpectedly<br />
appear <strong>ag</strong>ain.<br />
Not only for Enterprise<br />
Customers<br />
The shared use of a CmStick is not only interesting<br />
for enterprise companies utilizing a<br />
license server. But is also useful for the typical<br />
single-PC user: He or she has the safety of<br />
license backup and also the benefi t of license<br />
“portability” without the need to contact the<br />
software developer’s help desk every time they<br />
install the protected application on another<br />
software product, can transfer and activate their<br />
licenses in a CmStick which is already used to<br />
protect the core software at the user’s site.<br />
The whole order process can be implemented<br />
many ways: via the online shop of a provider, via<br />
a branch portal, the portal of a WIBU-SYSTEMS<br />
co-op partner or via the CodeMeter portal which<br />
is provided by WIBU-SYSTEMS.<br />
Complete Protection Solution<br />
Not only can software be protected <strong>ag</strong>ainst<br />
piracy with CodeMeter. The protection is also<br />
available for documents (PDF) and additional<br />
data.<br />
Without<br />
CodeMeter<br />
With<br />
CodeMeter<br />
Loss of the CmSticks<br />
What happens if several providers share a<br />
CmStick and the users destroys or loses this<br />
stick?<br />
For this we supply a technical framework;<br />
however, each software provider must defi ne<br />
the actual license conditions directly with their<br />
customers.<br />
The technical framework allows a user to create<br />
a signed license backup. This backup will<br />
preserve a certifi ed time, all vendor license<br />
information including the states of any licensing<br />
parameters or us<strong>ag</strong>e counters which were in the<br />
CmStick at the moment of backup. If the user<br />
or vendor reports a specifi c CmStick as lost or<br />
stolen to WIBU-SYSTEMS, we will add it to a<br />
public “locking list”. CmSticks on the “locking”<br />
list will be deactivated the next time they communicate<br />
with a certifi ed time server. Finally<br />
you, as the software provider, defi ne which<br />
licenses should be restored to a new CmStick<br />
– also if the old CmStick should be defi ned as<br />
computer or change operating <strong>systems</strong>, etc.<br />
Simply attaching the existing CmStick at the<br />
new PC is enough to move the license!<br />
Last but not least a single user can use the Firm<br />
Item with Firm Code 0, in the user area to store<br />
passwords or keys, possibly for an encryption<br />
of the hard disk.<br />
By sharing an existing CmStick, you do not have<br />
to pay for the CmStick hardware: You are only<br />
paying a small license fee to program the Firm<br />
Items and your program’s parameters into a<br />
shared CmStick. This means that CodeMeter is<br />
also attractive for software having a value far<br />
below the cost of a CmStick. As a result, the<br />
user can man<strong>ag</strong>e all protected software licenses,<br />
including those for low-cost software or even<br />
digital documents in a single CmStick.<br />
Industrial Branch Solutions<br />
In some industries, CodeMeter is already an<br />
established Standard. Providers of additional<br />
modules, usually third party plug-ins, to the core<br />
Think about electronic manuals, provided with<br />
your software, pictures or graphics which can<br />
be browsed with your software, or fi nally the<br />
data of the user who uses your software. If your<br />
software, for example, creates production data<br />
or creates intellectual property, then each of<br />
your customers can protect his data individually<br />
with the CmStick and can also defi ne, which<br />
employee, partner or even customer, can access<br />
the protected data.<br />
Optionally in Software<br />
In 2008, CodeMeterAct, a complete softwarebased<br />
license man<strong>ag</strong>ement system will be<br />
available. The functions are identical to the<br />
existing CodeMeter system. The administrator<br />
could use CodeMeterAct instead of a dongle<br />
to man<strong>ag</strong>e licenses. But you as our customer<br />
can decide which protection variant (Wibu<strong>Key</strong>,<br />
CodeMeter or CodeMeterAct) you will provide<br />
to your customers individually.<br />
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