![]() Losing the key wouldn't be so devastating as it is now (LAWD the time I couldn't find my Lightwave key for a couple of days!) since you'd (hopefully) have the crypto files backed up ready to be reinstalled onto a new usb key.Īnother thing I'd like to see become a standard among software companies is a 5/15/30 day grace period when you CAN'T (RE)ACTIVATE your application for some reason. ![]() I could just see having my Photoshop, Lightwave, XSI, Procoder and others all on this key - ONE key instead of a hand full. These files would most likely be small, a coupla K or so - a hella cheap 16 or 32 meg usb key could hold tens to hundreds of these soft-crypto keys. ![]() Natually the usb key would be volume encrypted and require a password once connected so if lost someone wouldn't just have a field day with all your keys! Actually what I had meant to say was hardware key instead of software.Īll usb dongles have programmable resources on them - my idea is instead of using dedicated Hasp or Rainbow keys (have you seen Softimage's dongle - lawd, thing has a clock on it and everything! ) to be able to have the software company provide you with some kind of cryptographic data file that unlocks their program - these files would be copied to your usb key.
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