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Thought for the Day:
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
~ Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), US Advice Columnist (Dear Abby)
July Special
Purchase a new CrypKey Instant, CrypKey SDK, Casper eRegister, or Casper eCommerce license today, and receive a $300 US discount. As an added bonus, the first 100 customers to act on this offer will receive a 128MB CrypKey USBKey loaded with a site key generator!
Don't wait: This fabulous offer ends July 31, 2006!
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CrypKey 7 (Beta) Release
CrypKey SDK 7 (beta version) has been released to a select group of customers for ongoing testing in a live environment. The valuable feedback provided by our clients is critical to ensuring the stability and robustness of the final version release, to be released soon. If you are interested in learning more about CrypKey 7 beta version testing, please contact us at support@CrypKey.com.
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Annual Subscriptions: Important Notice
With the pending release of CrypKey 7, new developer keys will be required by all customers. To avoid unnecessary re-licensing fees, please ensure that your annual subscriptions are up to date. Don't wait until it's too late—act today!
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CrypKey Stealth Prevents Reverse Engineering
CrypKey Stealth, a companion product that is embedded in all CrypKey Instant and CrypKey SDK licenses, provides encryption security at the level of your software code. Few competing encryption products on the market today boast the same robust protection that CrypKey Stealth guarantees.
CrypKey Stealth protects your software by implementing several multi-layer, anti-hacker techniques. One technique is to prevent hackers or unauthorized users from reverse engineering your software. CrypKey Stealth achieves this by rewriting an executable (EXE) file in such a way that common reverse engineering tools become virtually useless. To the hacker, the encrypted EXE becomes like a 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle without a picture.
CrypKey Stealth protects your application in two ways:
- It encrypts and compresses the application file. This makes reverse engineering or the use of debuggers extremely difficult while the application is in file form.
- It prevents debugging, patching, and memory dumping while your application is in memory:
- Debugging—CrypKey Stealth blocks debuggers from attaching to your process while it's running. It stops the application when a debugger is identified and immediately halts the program execution.
- Patching—Hackers use this method to redirect the application's execution of security code while it is in memory. CrypKey Stealth detects patches and immediately halts the program execution.
- Memory Dumping—CrypKey Stealth technology is revolutionary in this area. It divides the program into many small segments and keeps them in random order. Only the segment that needs to be running is unencrypted and executed. When the segment is finished running, it's removed from memory. This defeats the memory "snapshot" technique of hacking, and literally forces the hacker to try and assemble the 10,000-piece jigsaw puzzle without a picture.
CrypKey Stealth is a complex application that is remarkably simple to use. The only required user input is to specify the input and output file paths—CrypKey Stealth does the rest!
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CrypKey Distributor Authorizing License (DAL): New Pricing
Effective immediately, the new pricing for CrypKey Distributor Authorizing License (DAL) is as follows:
- $995.00 US
- Annual renewal - $325.00 US
DAL, a feature of CrypKey Instant or CrypKey SDK, gives our customers the ability to grant third-party vendors, such as distributors, permission to authorize their software.
How does this work? A CrypKey customer simply provides its distributor with a pre-configured copy of CrypKey's Site Key Generator (SKG). The customer's master SKG is used to authorize the distributor's SKG for a limited amount of uses. The CrypKey customer retains complete control over the number of licenses that a distributor can issue.
For example, a customer may wish to authorize 10 licenses of an accounting software to its IS department in San Francisco. Using CrypKey DAL, the customer provides the San Francisco department with its own unique SKG. After the department consumes the 10 authorizations, the function stops working. Further authorizations can be granted as required.
DAL can also be used to control the sales and licensing of products by a foreign distributor. As in the previous example, the customer provides the SKG to the distributor and authorizes a specified number of uses. The distributor uses the SKG to authorize software that it has sold. When the SKG license is exhausted, the distributor can order or purchase more SKG uses.
For more information about DAL, go to http://www.crypkey.com/dal.asp.
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Sunset on CrypKey 5.7 is Coming Soon
With the pending release of CrypKey 7, we will no longer support version 5.7. This change will be effective October 1, 2006. To ensure a smooth transition of your protected application(s), please contact technical support to discuss an implementation strategy that's best for you.
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CrypKey Yields Revenue Protection and Growth for Training and Online Learning Developers
As with any other software product, companies that develop training and online learning applications must protect their intellectual property with comprehensive anti-piracy tools and strategies. Hundreds, even thousands, of valuable development hours can be lost in a matter of minutes if correct security measures are not incorporated into the development structure of training applications. Until today, few security tools were available to protect this valuable intellectual property and provide companies with revenue control. However, dozens of training and online learning providers are now discovering CrypKey's suite of copy protection tools and are learning how to apply them to their unique products.
Applications that are based on an end product that is converted into an executable file, such as those developed with tools like Macromedia Director, are a perfect fit for the copy and reverse engineering protection that CrypKey Instant or CrypKey SDK provides. Our flexible licensing control options also provide the potential to increase your revenue by allowing you to implement new sales models, such as offering your customers protected demonstrations and subscription-based products.
CrypKey DLM (Data License Manager) has extended capabilities that were previously available only to training materials developed in PowerPoint (.ppt), Word (.doc), and Adobe (.pdf) formats, as well as multimedia files, such as .mpeg, .wav, .mp3, and .wmv formats. CrypKey DLM keeps your intellectual property encrypted and free from exposure at all times. The CrypKey “Data Manager” filters access to virtually any type of file based on your unique requirements. New sales potential is also created using CrypKey DLM, through the enhanced license management features.
CrypKey Instant, CrypKey SDK, and CrypKey DLM can be enhanced with 24-by-7, web-based activation using Casper eRegister. As an added benefit, Casper 's back-end configuration provides customer relations management tools to help you identify and track customer purchases.
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Share Your Ideas
Let us know which topics you'd like to see in upcoming issues of CrypKey Distributor News. If you'd like to learn more about specific technical aspects of CrypKey products, tell us. Send your requests and suggestions to sales@CrypKey.com.
We want to help. If you have questions about product subscription(s) or renewals, call us at 1-403-258-6274 or email sales@CrypKey.com.
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We appreciate your business and continued support. Thank you for reading and have a great day!
Sincerely,
Team CrypKey
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