"Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Author, Poet &
Philosopher, 1803-1882
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Receive a 10% discount on your next purchase of a CrypKey Instant, CrypKey SDK, Casper eRegister, Casper eCommerce or CrypKey DLM license when you refer a customer to us. This referral program will begin September 1, 2005. Referrals will apply to closed sales only. For more info, contact us at 1-403-258-6274. Savings Of note to all our customers with more than one (1) CrypKey license or those who sell multiple products is our Special valid now through September 30, 2005. When you purchase Casper eRegister or Casper eCommerce during August or September 2005, we will waive product fees, valued at $500 or more per product, for any additional products you wish to use in conjunction with Casper. So if you have multiple products take advantage of this special offer and call CrypKey at 1-403-258-6274 and mention this newsletter. Note: Check out our new Casper 2.0 manual in pdf format at http://www.crypkey.com/user_manual/casper_part_1.pdf. This summertime offer will expire on September 30,
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CrypKey is pleased to announce the release of CrypKey Instant with .NET compatibility (beta version). CrypKey SDK with .NET compatibility (alpha version) is now ready for testing. The long awaited .NET solution offers true code encryption for .NET applications. CrypKey 7.0 including all these exciting new features plus .NET compatibility will be released in September 2005: Stay tuned to www.crypkey.com
for the launch details.
Unlimited Phone Support New! CrypKey offers three (3) levels of technical support via annual subscriptions including Silver, Gold and Platinum. The Platinum subscription is our premium support package and features the following: To order a Platinum Annual Subscription, visit the Secure Cart on our Internet site at https://www.crypkey.com/secure/order.asp. *System design consulting provided by our
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The Merits of Encryption Encryption offers very strong protection from reverse engineering. Here’s why. It takes no special training for a reasonably intelligent person to make headway understanding an obfuscated program. Unlike obfuscation, which attempts to prevent recompilation of software code by destroying relationships between compiled and source code versions of code, encryption utilizes password or encryption key to prevent examination of code from those without access to the key. While some software protection companies utilize obfuscation to deter hackers, encryption is the best way to protect software from unauthorized usage. Various companies utilizing obfuscation claim to protect .NET applications from illegal copying, in reality, however, they are not able to accomplish such a feat. Obfuscation can provide a limited level of reverse engineering deterrent but cannot provide a meaningful level of copy protection. Obfuscation is an inexpensive, fast, extra layer of protection from reverse engineering; however, it does not prevent reverse engineering by very determined opponents …and it falls short as a way to protect .NET software from being copied. Encryption is a much stronger method of protecting .NET applications. The key benefit to code encryption is that it can provide a meaningful level of copy protection, and the level of protection can be driven by cost-benefit analysis. Only encryption-based systems can offer a meaningful, scaleable level of copy protection against the modern, technically evolved hacker.
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