How Does Dongle Protection Secure Your Software Against Piracy?
The small hardware device, that is similar to a flash drive, and plugs into the USB port is called a dongle. It may be used on laptops, desktops and servers. The most beneficial software security occurs if the dongle key carries a smart card chip, onboard memory plus it ought to be manufactured with a tough outer case to safeguard it from attempt to damage it. It is far from sufficient for the software simply to make sure the dongle key exists, in order for the dongle key to safeguard the program it needs to encrypt the communications between the dongle and the computer operating system. Dongles can be found on SD, Micro SD, and compact flash cards. A dongle protection device helps prevent illegal duplicating of the software by saving a key which is used to decrypt the program as soon as the user loads it. The program was formerly encrypted by the ISV and provided to the consumer in an encrypted form. Only if it is decrypted on startup will it run on the user’s computer. Strong encryp...