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Thursday, March 19, 2009

UniKey Time hardware key is ready for shipment worldwide

UniKey Time hardware key is ready for shipment worldwide
New Unikey time offers advanced, strong secure method for subscriptions and rental of software
Canada, Sept 25, 2008 – SecuTech, the leader in software protection, video and flash protection solutions, today announced general availability of its new UniKey Time dongle that serves as one of the latest additions to the family of UniKey dongles, released today. Unikey Time offers numerous advancements that allow the rental of software based on a specific period.

The best software copy protection solution, the strongest hardware key for software vendors—UniKey Time will be always the right choice alongside with cost effectiveness and robust security.
UniKey Time is specially designed for software vendors who needs to control and manage the software’s rental and selling in subscription or maintenance, it allows to pay per use, in this way software vendor can completely control the sales by charging the end users timely and periodically. This function is based on a real time clock deposited in the dongle indicating the specific time (hour, minute, second) and date (day, month, year).
Strong Anti-Piracy Protection technology and Real-Time Clock dongle
Unikey time provides strong copy protection that guarantees software vendors get paid for every copy of software. A real-time, clock inside USB key prevents tampering with time settings, while on-chip 128-bit encryption ensures a robust link between the application and the USB hardware key.
UniKey Time is designed and manufactured under ISO 9001 that ensuring consistent quality and performance. UniKey time has three years warranty. For additional information on SecuTech Unikey Time and the entire suite of Unikey software protection solutions, visit www.eSecuTech.com

Features:
l Real-time on-board clock prevents hacking by time settings
l 4K memory to store encrypted licenses, passwords, strings, and application data.
l Pay-per-use allows software vendors to manage and control selling, rental and subscription
l Time-based protection ensures complete payment of software users, All the data delivered to the customer is AES 128-bit encrypted and secure.
l A unique hardware ID number for every dongle allows software venders to identify authorized users.
l UniKey Time’s Remote Update System sends encrypted licenses to users – ensuring secure updates of keys and licenses in the field.
l Unikey Time allows software vendors to enable or disable dongle functions according to user needs.
l Flexible timing schemes allow multiple software trail, software lease, software expiration solutions.
Technical Specifications:
Unique ID
32-bit
Encryption
128-bit
Remote Update
Yes
Rental & Subscription
Yes
Pay-per-use
Yes
Memory
4 KB
Data retention
at least 30 years
Write cycles
at least 1,000,000
On-board clock
counts date and time (hours, minutes, seconds)
Battery life
3 years warranty
Development platforms supported
Windows XP w/SP2, Windows Server 2003,Windows Vista, Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS X
Supported programming languages
VB, VC, VFP, Delphi, BCB, PowerBuilder, LabView, WinDEV, Clarion, Java, VS.Net, Fortran, Visual DataFlex and many more
Case
Metal
Operating temperature
0° C to 70° C / 32° F to 158° F
Humidity rating (without condensation)
0-70%
Power consumption
50 mA
Dimensions LxWxH (in mm)
52.5×17×7mm
Weight (in grams)
9g

About SecuTech Solution Inc.
SecuTech Solutions Inc. is a company specializing in software license management business systems focusing on the international market with their class leading UniKey product range. Having an extensive and in-depth range of experience within the Software Management Licensing market, SecuTech has drawn upon this experience to utilize today's cutting-edge technologies to introduce a COMPLETE and affordable solution for today's software vendor markets worldwide

Press contact
PR@eSecuTech.com
Phone: +1 888 259 5825
Fax: +1 888 259 5825 ext 0

SecuTech Solution Inc.
www.eSecuTech.com
©2008 SecuTech Solution Inc. All rights reserved.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

UniKey—the Driverless dongle, reduces the huge work of technical support team for software vendors.



“It is a nightmare for a long time that the dongle driver keeps giving problems, actually more than 90% of dongle problems are from driver, software users complains a lot, it is really
a headache for our technical support team”




UniKey—the Driverless dongle, reduces the huge work of technical support team for software vendors.

Background
A company in USA providing mining and geomechanics software is using dongles which needs driver to be installed, this causes a lot of problems from the driver, DONGLE NOT FOUND is the most harassing problem called a nightmare for dongle users. These problems caused by dongle driver increased the workload of technical support, actually more than 90% dongle problems are from driver.

Software
Advanced, three dimensional continuum modeling for geotechnical analysis of rock, soil and structural, the software is applied to a broad range of problems in engineering studies.

Technical requirement
Platform: on Windows XP x64 as a 32 bit process.
Software engineers found that there have been several issues with codes running on newer 64bit operating systems, which they believe these problems are caused by security (dongle) drivers. Dongle users have to keep trying to find the new version dongle drivers to avoid the problem.

Problems caused by dongle driver
The dongle is used to prevent the operation of software codes in machines where it is not present.
A donlge related error is reported on starting the code, which prevents the code from being used. The errors may occur when there is no dongle present on the user’s machine, the errors also result from faulty installation of dongle drivers, or if the driver files have become corrupted or damaged.




Solution--UniKey
UniKey is a driverless dongle, driverless means you do not have to install a driver. The operation system will install the driver automatically. And there is not any driver installation problem at all. Software users really enjoy the convenience brought by the driverless technology.

Benefits for software supplier,
l Save 90% of technical support team’s energy and time.
l Reduce lots of work for support team
l Do not have to upload the new driver to website for update
l Reduce the technical dependency of dongle providers.

Benefits for end users
l Do not have to download the new driver to update
l Avoid the problems of DONGLE NOT FOUND
l Easy to use, just plug in with UniKey, it works perfectly.

Advantages of UniKey

Driverless dongle can be
plugged in with the computer
on

Driverless can avoid the
harassment of DONGLE
NOT FOUND.

An all-in-one Hardware
combines with software
copy protection, PC Lock,
content protection.

Memory up to 4K

3 128-bit keys storage

About SecuTech and UniKey
SecuTech Solutions Inc. is a company specializing in software license management business systems focusing on the international market with their class leading UniKey product range. Having an extensive and in-depth range of experience within the Software Management Licensing market, SecuTech has drawn upon this experience to utilize today's cutting-edge technologies to introduce a COMPLETE and affordable solution for today's software vendor markets worldwide


SecuTech Solution Inc.
http://www.esecutech.com/
Support@eSecuTech.com

Thursday, February 12, 2009

How UniKey Hardware Keys Help Us Improve The Product’s Security.[By Michael Ricci]

How UniKey Hardware Keys Help Us Improve The Product’s Security.
Better security through UniKey


When we began work on the UniKey security keys (http://www.esecutech.com/), our Engineers were to find a device that would be an adequate deterrent to software piracy thefts. While we understand that complete security is impossible in open systems like PCs, we wanted to make it hard enough to break that would-be hackers would look elsewhere.

Software license is that the software publisher grants a license to use one or more copies of software, but that ownership of those copies remains with the software publisher. One consequence of this feature of proprietary software licenses is that virtually all rights regarding the software are reserved by the software publisher. Only a very limited set of well-defined rights are conceded to the end-user.

In an effort to show that UniKey security keys were more than smoke-and-mirrors, I submitted an article to my blog that gave significant details on how the UniKey USB security key worked (http://softwarecopyprotectionsecuritykeys.blogspot.com/). There are some real ferrets out there.

I was not disappsointed. UniKey responded with a variety of suggestions and judgements. The most common response we got from UniKey support team is that there is a technical support ticket system to help me work with them. While there are many articles at their website www.esecutech.com/ indicating how easy it is to integrate the keys, the articles I read assume that your questions are available. In our case, the questions are not available.

Let's assume that enterprising intruders are able to analyze the data on the USB bus, collect a sufficient number of values, and apply the appropriate effort to determine the key values. Is the usefulness of the UniKey over? Not really. An intruder cannot use information to clone another key.It is impossible (even with that information) for a program communicating with a UniKey by using the correct keys to change the key values on the device. The keys are not stored in memory that can be accessed by any program, even if it knows the keys. The bottom line is that this approach cannot change a hardware key for product A to be modified to become a key for product B.

UniKey dongles are driverless dongles and available in standalone, network and real time. Using a software developer’s kit, software developers can protect applications with the right hardware key by calling for the dongle’s presentation. UniKey API protection scheme ensures the highest security for software vendors.

We appreicate the HID technology which let us forget the dongle NOT FOUND problem of other brand dongles, and we also appreciate the review and feedback we received from UniKey technical support Team and other UniKey end users. It help us a lot to improve our software’s security. The software development customers don't have to change the code with Unikey envelop secuirty technology, and the security is improved. We aren't so naïve as to believe that UniKey provides an unbreakable solution, but we do believe that the time and effort required to crack and bypass the security is sufficiently high that intruders will look for easier targets.

SecuTech Solution Inc. offers several ready license protection solutions along with UniKey. UniKey takes the role of hardware ID and works as the container of digital credentials. UniKey Software Protection System provides a completed set of tools and samples for software vendors to control their software's distribution.