Unikey Software Protection System--The best software protection and licensing solution

Unikey Software Protection System--The best software protection and licensing solution

Hardware-based software protection with the UniKey Hardware key secures sales and profits by preventing software piracy and license infringements as well as providing a best way of license management and distribution

In addition to software protection, UniKey allows software publishers to have new distribution channels with multiple license models. Software licensing can obtain 100% customer’s registration and improve customer relations and obtain valuable marketing data.
UniKey Software protection system’s working flow

Use UniKey to increase value and differentiate your products from the market to enhance and differentiate marketing share.

UniKey software protection system features role-based tools and processes that allow your entire staff to focus on their core competencies by integrating your existing software product lifecycle to minimize disruptions to development and business processes.
1 R&D department implements the UniKey protection system into the whole development processing.
2 Product department deploys licensing control and managing system.
3 Sales department can track the sales record and distribute the software smoothly.
4 End-users manage sales, decrease cost with efficient licensing management.

Streamline Processing, Save Money
UniKey software protection system is ready to assist you in obtaining the best arrangement for you organization. It offers a wide range of options and flexibility for the whole software marketing processing by making and revising both licensing and protection strategies. The streamline processing minimizes total cost of technology ownership, supports business growth, fully exploits software profit potential, and maximizes business investment


Added Flexibility & Enhanced Revenues
Business models implemented with License feature allow you to give your end-users the flexibility they need. And because there’s inherent value in these flexible licenses, you not only compete more effectively, but you can also charge more for the added functionality.

UniKey Hardware Keys
UniKey Time--- The first real time driverless dongle on software licensing market
UniKey PRO--- Flexible, powerful and easy with various licensing
Unikey STD--- The most cost-effective, powerful and easy at attractive pricing
UniKey Lite---Simple and extremely competitive pricing

Features and Specifications
For complete feature set and product specifications, view the data sheets:
http://www.esecutech.com/software-protection-dongles/unikey-hardware-key-brochures-a-datasheets.html
Platform Support
UniKey supports major operating systems and programming environments.
For complete details on platform support, please visit: http://www.esecutech.com/software-protection-dongles/platform-support.html

Request the UniKey Developer Kit today!
UniKey Software Protection Developer’s Kit is a powerful, proven marketing option for all types of software. UniKey Evaluation Kit includes one fully functional UniKey Hardware Key and one Protection Kit Software CD. You can use this UniKey Hardware Key without any limitations for your protection.
Before you order actual UniKey dongles, please get a UniKey Developer Kit to start.http://www.esecutech.com/order-evaluation/free-evaluation.html

About SecuTech and UniKey
SecuTech UniKey copy protection products were augmented by the introduction of driverless UniKey Dongles that maintained the same high level of security by means of a small hardware key that fitted into the user's USB port. The innovative design of these devices enabled them to be much easier and less expensive than those of our competitors.
Whether you are new to the idea of Dongle security or knowledgeable about the potential benefits – SecuTech is your trusted partner delivering the right amount of protection for you and your company.

On hardware-based software licensing key (USB dongle hardware key for software license management)

On hardware-based software licensing key

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.

Software License Types
Individual licenses
 Individual (Single-user): This license type allows the software to be used on only one computer which is not accessed by other users over a network. The other users are not allowed to use software while connected to your computer. Types of individual licenses are:
 Perpetual license: allows the customer to install and use the software indefinitely without any limitation.
 Subscription license: Allows the user to use the software for a specific time period. At the end of the term the user has several options: (1) renew the subscription; or (2) purchase a perpetual license at a discounted cost; or (3) remove the software from the computer.
 Trial license: Allows software venders to release the software for a period time like a month as marketing tool. The end user can only use this software for only one month.
 Evaluation license: This license allows the expensive software to be evaluated with certain period.
 Demo license: This license allows end users to demonstrate the software with partial function or certain period.
 Feature based license: This license allows end users to use partial function of the software to save money than to use the whole package.
 Time limited rental license: This allows the end user to pay per time. The end user pre-pay a period of time that fits their needs. The end user can also renew before the license expired.
 Concurrent Use: This license type requires the end users purchase licenses for the maximum number of people who will be running the software simultaneously. However, end users can usually install the software on more computers than
Network/Multi-user licenses
 Server (Network): Licensed per server – This license type requires that you have a single copy of the software residing on the file server
 Per Seat (Machine): Licensed per machine/seat – This license requires that you purchase a license for each client computer and/or device where access to services is needed. This license is typically used in conjunction with a network license.

Add-on’s to existing or new licenses
 Upgrade: This license is acquired when a user has a previously acquired software license and would like to move up to a newer version.
 Student use:This allows students to use the software as long as they are students of the institutions. Students are required to uninstall software upon leaving the University.
 Secondary use: Allows the licensed end user to use the software on a second computer.
 Work-at-home rights: Allows Facult/Staff to use software at home. This is effective for as long as the primary work computer is licensed and as long as the person is an employee. Termination of employment also terminates this benefit.
 Home use: Similar to Work-at-home rights

How hardware based software license key works?
In order to improve the relationships between vendors and customers as well as grow revenue, software pricing and licensing policies are made more flexible. Hardware keys are made to feature secure software licensing options and offers multiple licensing molds locked into the hardware key to supply flexible licensing protection. Such as HASP from Aladdin, Sentinel from Safenet, UniKey from SecuTech.

Hardware key or software protection dongle is the hardware-based protection and licensing management tool. It is a USB key with memory that protects software against piracy and illegal use by allowing access and execution of the protected software only when the key is connected to the computer.

The hardware keys provide licensing method with envelope-base automatic implementation and API-based automatic implementation.

The only thing that would make hardware key better for software license management is if there were an industry-standard way to store multiple software licenses on one physical dongle (and transfer them securely if need be). Public computers could have those software installed on them at no cost to the business providing the computer, but they would only work when someone presented a valid license via their dongle. And the end user would never have to think about moving the licenses to a new computer or losing valuable software when they dispose of the old one.


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

SecuTech Solution Inc.
info@eSecuTech.com
www.eSecuTech.com

UniKey API protection scheme ensures the highest security for software vendors.

UniKey API protection scheme ensures the highest security for software vendors.

A question that regularly was come up is whether software could be one hundred percent secured by a dongle, or thought some dongles have been seriously cracked, why most expensive software still use dongle as their software protection solution? The truth is, most developers used the easiest way-enveloper to encrypt the application, which is the least method to use a dongle to protect software. Actually UniKey API protection scheme is the right way to ensure the highest security for software vendors.

UniKey dongles are 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 provides two methods of protection schemes, envelope and API. UniKey Enveloper is automatically wrap up a program with only a click by a mouse, it is the fast way to protect executable files without needing for the source and additional coding work,

To ensure the highest security, the API implementation is strongly recommended by SecuTech’s experience technology expert, Raymond Chaw, ‘we have been helping customers to integrate UniKey and their software successfully with API application, I hope that our work can help software vendors gain more on revenue and reputation’, said Raymond.

An API, or Application Programming Interface, is a set of routines that an application uses to work with the operating system, allows data and messages to be encoded or encrypted so they can be stored and transmitted securely. With the help of UniKey API, software developers can easily achieve strong software protection and produce complicated software protection schemes via various combinations of the UniKey APIs.

We provide abundant APIs to operate the UniKey dongle. All the APIs are implemented in a DLL/LIB file. In the SDK, software developers can find samples in various programming languages.

UniKey API is easy, secure and portable. If a DLL is required for development language, the appropriate DLL(s) can be copied to the same directory as the sample source code.


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

SecuTech Solution Inc.
info@eSecuTech.com
www.eSecuTech.com

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.

UniKey e-Learning protection — A special version of software control license solution

SecuTech Solution Inc. released a special version of software license solution—UniKey e-Learning protection. This solution is specially made for e-Learning providers to offer people to learn anytime and anywhere online, including training.

SecuTech Solution Inc. released a special version of software license solution—UniKey e-Learning protection. This solution is specially made for e-Learning providers to offer people to learn anytime and anywhere online, including training, the delivery of just-in-time information and guidance from experts.

e-Learning solution provides supports for multiple platforms and numerous language to meet the flexibility of online learning, training, and monitoring.

This solution combines a hardware key-UniKey providing licensing method with envelope-base automatic implementation and API-based automatic implementation.

In order to improve the relationships between vendors and customers as well as grow revenue, UniKey e-learning solution is made more flexible in licensing

Subscription license: Allows the user to use the software for a specific time period. At the end of the term the user has several options:

(1) renew the subscription; or

(2) purchase a perpetual license at a discounted cost; or

(3) remove the software from the computer.

Trial license: Allows software venders to release the software for a period time like a month as marketing tool. The end user can only use this software for only one month.
Evaluation license: This license allows the expensive software to be evaluated with certain period.

Demo license: This license allows end users to demonstrate the software with partial function or certain period.

Feature based license: This license allows end users to use partial function of the software to save money than to use the whole package.

Time limited rental license: This allows the end user to pay per time. The end user pre-pay a period of time that fits their needs. The end user can also renew before the license expired.

Concurrent Use: Thislicense type requires the end users purchase licenses for the maximum number of people who will be running the software simultaneously.

However, end users can usually install the software on more computers than Server (Network): Licensed per server – This license type requires that you have a single copy of the software residing on the file server .

The hardware key -- Unikey is to feature secure software licensing options and offers multiple licensing molds locked into the hardware key to supply flexible licensing protection.
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As I know, UniKey is special designed for eLearning solution which is the cheapest dongle in UniKey family.

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