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Welcome to the latest edition of CrypKey News, the newsletter exclusively for customers of CrypKey (Canada) Inc. CrypKey News is issued monthly to keep you up-to-date on the latest CrypKey product and company news and information.

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Happy New Years!

During 2005, our website will undergo a new design. We hope you will find useful, relevant information when you visit www.crypkey.com. This year, we also hope to expand our existing line of software protection and license management solutions and continue to develop and enhance our customer support services.

We look forward to working with you throughout the coming year.

All Full-Featured Copy Protections Are Not Alike

In our previous issue, we outlined the results of a recent survey of 100 software developers. It revealed that developers' top five considerations when selecting a software security solution include the following:

1. Basic security
2. Ease of use
3. Customer confidence
4. Customized features
5. Simplified pricing

This article will detail developers' basic security preferences.

Basic Security: Number One Developer Preference
Naturally, the protection solution chosen by a given developer must actually protect an application. Software developers currently looking at or already using software copy protection tools rated basic security--doing everything possible to prevent or deter unauthorized use of their applications--as their number one priority.

In describing their preferences, developers identified the following four (4) primary security risks that developers must understand:

1. Reverse Engineering . This entails having the security essentially stripped off your application, leaving your software code fully exposed and available
2. Creation of Illegal Key Generators . Reverse engineering enables others to create tools to generate working license keys for your applications without your knowledge or permission.
3. Patching and Memory Dumping . These are common tactics using many of the same, increasingly powerful tools developers themselves use to work around the security.
4. Hard Drive Cloning . This involves copying or ghosting entire hard drives to duplicate authorized software.

While some companies don't believe they need a high level of anti-piracy security, it only takes one person to remove whatever copy protection is being used--giving everyone on the Internet potential access to free unauthorized use of their software. If the copy protection currently used can be stripped away and discarded, the time and money invested in it has no value.

Must-Have Security Features Developers agreed that a high quality software copy protection solution should:

• provide effective security that makes it difficult for anyone to have unauthorized access to your software without making it difficult for your honest, paying customers;
• include adequate protection and still be reasonably simple to use - for both you and your customers;
• enable you to confidently distribute secure trial versions of your software electronically; and
• provide a complete feature set that makes trying your software easier and more appealing to prospective paying customers.

The CrypKey Solution
CrypKey's series of industry leading, proprietary technologies are designed to combat primary security attacks. CrypKey Instant and CrypKey SDK contain unsurpassed security capabilities while offering control, flexibility and ease of use matching any competitive products available. They incorporate several anti-piracy technologies including StealthPlus, CloneBuster, Dynamic Multi-Key Encryption, Easy License and CrypWrap. For more info on CrypKey's anti-piracy technology, see
www.crypkey.com/anti_piracy.asp.

Read about developers' #2 consideration when selecting a software protection solution in our February newsletter.

Stand-Alone Stealth Now Available

CrypKey is now offering a fully functional, stand-alone CrypKey Stealth, until now sold only as a companion product to CrypKey Instant or CrypKey SDK.
CrypKey Stealth prevents hackers or unauthorized users from reverse engineering your software. It rewrites an executable file in such a way that reverse engineering tools are no longer effective.

The stand-alone CrypKey Stealth is now available. Pricing will be negotiated based on your individual needs.
To inquire about a trial, contact us at 1-403-258-6274 or send an email to
sales@crypkey.com.
For more information on the benefits of CrypKey Stealth, see
http://www.crypkey.com/stealth.asp.

CrypKey 7.0 To Feature Enterprise Networking CrypKey is soon to launch version 7.0 of CrypKey Instant and CrypKey SDK. In addition to featuring both eTransfer and USBKey capabilities, CrypKey 7.0 will offer enterprise networking features that will allow users to connect to the network without having to connect to a directory, make the networking controls transparent to the user, and require minimal client set up. Stay tuned.

Reminder: Update Annual Subscriptions to Prepare for 2005 Releases

A reminder to all our customers to update Annual Subscriptions this month.

We recommend updating Annual Subscriptions as soon as possible to be ready to take advantage of new product releases including CrypKey 7.0, which is expected to launch in March 2005.

Lockheed Martin Corporation CrypKey customer Lockheed Martin Corporation is a lead systems integrator and information technology company based in Bethesda, Maryland. With some 130,000 employees worldwide, it is involved in the research, design, development, manufacture and integration of advanced technology systems, products and services. The company operates in these broad business areas:

1. aeronautics;
2. electronic systems;
3. integrated systems and solutions;
4. space systems; and
5. technology services.

Some 80% of Lockheed Martin's business is with the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. federal government agencies. Lockheed Martin Corporation was formed in March 1995 with the merger of Lockheed Corporation and Martin Marietta Corporation, two of the world's premier technology companies.

For more info on Lockheed, see www.lockheedmartin.com

Download Upgrades for your CrypKey Protection

To download and update your CrypKey software go to:

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CrypKey Support Online Access

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CrypKey now offers three levels of Annual Subscription including telephone support and direct connection support to better support you. To see a complete list of available subscriptions and prices go to: http://www.crypkey.com/subscription.asp

CrypKey now offers three levels of Annual Subscription including telephone support and direct connection support to better support you. To see a complete list of available subscriptions and prices go to: http://www.crypkey.com/subscription.asp

Why Renew your CrypKey Subscription?

Annual Subscriptions allow you to Fight Piracy by:

1. Upgrading your protection to the latest CrypKey software
2. Receiving CrypKey technical support
3. Accessing our robust online support database
4. CrypKey quarterly newsletters with updated password information

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