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  1. Welcome
  2. Company News
  3. Product News
  4. Support News
  5. Customer Spotlight
  6. Subscription Status
  7. Talk To Us
  8. Privacy

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1. Welcome

Welcome

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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2. Company News

Announcements

With fall here, we return to the busy pace of business … and budgets. As you plan for your organization's security needs, take a look at the variety of CrypKey products--all designed to minimize your workload and maximize your sales. See our products page for details.


Avert Copies of CrypKey Solutions

As with most software solutions on the market today, unscrupulous individuals have attempted and will continue to attempt to copy and even advertise their prowess at copying CrypKey and other software solutions on the Internet's search engines.

To avoid unauthorized usage of your CrypKey license management software, please remember to download the latest product revisions…. and also keep your support subscriptions current. This will avert this scenario.... and keep your CrypKey protection running smoothly.


New Feature

Beginning with this month's newsletter, we will highlight a CrypKey customer each issue. For this month's Customer Spotlight. If you have some information to share on how you have used CrypKey license management solutions to your advantage, please email us at News@CrypKey.com .



3. Product News

CrypKey Instant Small Business New!

CrypKey now offers CrypKey Instant Small Business, the ideal choice to quickly and effortlessly set up a software licensing and copy protection system. It is the same as CrypKey Instant but without eTransfer, networking and USBKey capabilities.

Priced at $995.00 USD (per title protected), CrypKey Instant Small Business comes with 60 days of free Silver Technical Support including upgrades to the latest CrypKey product releases, online tech support/access to CrypKey Support Database, and a subscription to CrypKey News, CrypKey's monthly newsletter.

CrypKey Instant Small Business can be upgraded to the full product version for $500.00 USD. Click here to order.


USBKey A Hit So Far

Just released last month, CrypKey's USBKey, the flash drive licensing solution for developers and end users who prefer a tangible software protection solution, is a big hit thus far.

The size of a car key, USBKey is a simple and economical way to protect software licenses. It plugs into any computer with a USB port.

USBKey is the ideal license management solution for those who need to move a license from one computer to another. It has a maximum 2GB storage capacity, compared to a dongle, which typically can store only 128K of data. USBKey can hold an entire software application and the license to authorize it. For more info, see our USBKey product page.


Coming Soon: CrypKey Data License Manager

Soon you will be able to copy protect and control Microsoft Office, Microsoft Publisher, Adobe Acrobat or any data file, just like you copy protect and control your executables. CrypKey is working on development of a new product that will allow users to give a CrypKey license to documents such as Help and Word files, thereby controlling access to them.

The new product is expected to roll out in the near future. Stay tuned for further details.


4. Support News

Maximize Your Support Options

To get the most from CrypKey technical support, see the following support page on our website.

Tech Tip

Technical support has been seeing several -5 errors arise lately when the CrypKey protected applications are being started via the application shotcut. This is often because the application shortcut is not set to start in the application directory. Do to the higher occurrence of this problem the tech note of the month is to ensure that your application shortcut is set to start in the application directory. For more detailed information please email Support@CrypKey.com.

 


5. Customer Spotlight

Customer: Honeywell

Honeywell International is a $23 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services, control technologies for buildings, homes and industry, automotive products; turbochargers, and specialty materials.

Headquartered in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell's shares are traded on the New York, London, Chicago and Pacific Stock Exchanges. Honeywell Limited, its Canadian subsidiary, is Canada's leading controls company offering technology that enhances comfort, improves productivity, saves energy, protects the environment and increases security and safety. Operating in Canada since 1930, Honeywell Limited employs 2,800 in more than 50 locations across the country.

Honeywell Limited is currently using CrypKey SDK (Software Developer Kit) to license its Shadow Plant® product. Shadow Plant® is a fully featured software suite for the process industries, delivering a realistic replica of a plant. This replica can be used to evaluate decisions, check engineering designs, improve performance, and train operations personnel.

How is Honeywell benefiting from CrypKey license management solutions? In 2001, Honeywell wanted to enforce a node-locked licensing scheme but without a hardware dongle requirement. Without sufficient time to design its own solution, the company initially utilized CrypKey Instant, which allowed it to node-lock its main Shadow Plant® executable without changing any source code.

For its next product release, Honeywell switched to CrypKey SDK, which allowed the company to build CrypKey licensing checks directly into its software code …and provide more flexible licensing options to its customers.


6. Subscription Status

This section is only available to CrypKey customers.

 

7. Talk To Us

Share Your Ideas

Let us know of any topics you would like to see in upcoming issues of CrypKey News. If you would like to learn more about specific technical aspects of CrypKey products, please tell us.

Send your requests and suggestions to us at news@crypkey.com.

Questions?
We want to help you! If you have any questions about product subscription(s) or renewals, please call us at +1 (403) 258-6274 or email sales@crypkey.com.

You can also reach us using our website Contact Form at http://crypkey.com/contact/contform/contform.html


8. Privacy

Our Pledge To You

At CrypKey, we value our customers' right to privacy. We respect your privacy as our subscribers and will never make our mailing lists public.

We appreciate Graham Co's business. Thank-you for reading and have a great day!

Sincerely,
Team CrypKey

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