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• Safe storage of the license directly in the embedded smart card chip within the dongle:
This is significantly more secure than simple encryption wrapper designs where a
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dongle is only superficially bound to a license that is otherwise stored and parsed on the
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computer or server. Additionally, because the license is bound to the dongle in a selfin Russia and China
contained manner, users can easily shift a software license from one computer
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and enables incorporation into not only desktops, but portable and embedded devices
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• Customized casing: Because dongles form a crucial part of a software vendor’s
go-to-market and branding strategy, Wibu offers not only custom engraving and branding
options, but also entirely personalized casings for their dongles. Surprisingly, every
customer Frost & Sullivan spoke with listed this capability as very valuable or valuable for
their business.
• Long-term availability: All CodeMeter products, including WibuKey® introduced in
1989 and CodeMeter introduced in 2003, continue to be available from and serviced
by Wibu-Systems. This offers long-term continuity to both publishers and customers,
since dongle transitions can be made at a time that is convenient to the publisher
rather than based on vendor upgrade or end-of-life schedules.
• Simple Web-based interface: Rich, programmable interfaces offer a variety of deployment
options at the business operations end and allow end customers to quickly add, modify
or upgrade licenses throughout the life of the product via a customized and branded
Web portal.
• Flexibility: CodeMeter CmDongle® is complemented by CodeMeter CmActLicense®,
which is a license activation-based solution which offers the same feature and functions
as CmDongle. With CmActLicense, the license is bound to the host computer
rather than a dongle using Wibu’s patented SmartBind® technology, which combines
anti-hack protection with flexible computer fingerprinting to ensure secure yet
seamless deployment. SmartBind offers license activation for desktop as well as virtual
environments. The fingerprinting is done using dynamically selected features and is
designed to tolerate significant amount of system modification before a false positive is
thrown, while still being resilient against cloning or other forms of unauthorized copying.
At the core of Wibu-Systems’ licensing infrastructure are standardized encryption algorithms.
By basing its products on open cryptography standards and protocols rather than closed
proprietary technology, Wibu-Systems enables a critical aspect of scalability for its customer—
ensuring that the publishers can continue to service and maintain their existing licenses
and operations independently. As discussed earlier, this is a truly important future-looking
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