KEYnote Magazine Articles

The blinds weren’t drawn and there was no bright light glaring right in my face. But it all still felt a bit like an interrogation.…

Wibu-Systems has developed a completely new variant of its popular AxProtector for native applications on Windows, Linux, and macOS.…

Automatic build systems and continuous integration have become the standard for modern software development processes. Typically, the…

Engineers, scientists, economists, and the mathematically inclined everywhere swear by it: MATLAB by Mathworks Inc., the numeric…

Every software vendor knows: To monetize your software, you use licenses. But what about protecting the invaluable know-how that is…

Additive manufacturing has truly arrived. When the first 3D printer was introduced back in 1987, it was the start of a long and often…

JavaScript can look back on a long and storied history as a script language, originally for in-browser use or client-side processes,…

CodeMeter Version 7.30 introduced a number of new features to improve the experience of working with protected applications in…

A new native component has arrived to keep software even better protected with novel mechanisms. Learn all the benefits and how this…

But how do you protect and license Python applications?The TIOBE Index charts the world’s most popular programming languages, and it…

How do you protect software from reverse engineering? How do you make sure that your users pay the licensing fees they owe you? You…

Virtual systems are popular. These days, wherever possible, services and solutions are virtualized. The advantages are plain to see:…

3D printing has morphed over time from a plaything for elite nerds to a viable technology for the future of industry. Companies now…

Germany’s federal government recently released its “Blockchain Strategy” to great fanfare. Judgement is still out on whether this…

Wibu-Systems introduces the ideal solution to protect trial and demo software or enable freemium models with free software designed to…

CodeMeter Protection Suite keeps expanding and growing in strength. AxProtector .NET Standard has joined the Protection Suite family as…

“Anything executed on a computer can be monitored by hackers. They can understand and bypass security mechanisms just as easily as…

Hundreds of eager participants from all over the world took part in our latest hacker’s contest. Their mission: To crack the Blurry…

“A wrapper that encrypts software can be circumvented by using a memory dump. You just wait until all parts of the application are…

Protecting software should be safe and simple – but isn’t that a contradiction in terms? Wibu-Systems shows that it does not have to be…

Many software developers use CodeMeter Runtime and encrypt their applications with AxProtector. They want to know when new innovations…

The all-new Universal Firm Code provides the groundwork for the secure transfer of licenses without any involvement of the original…

Since 2003, CmSticks have been available to protect and license your software. One great advantage of CodeMeter is that you do not have…

Server certificates are a ubiquitous sight. They offer users the certainty that they are indeed on the right website and have not…

Software is contributing an ever greater share to the value created in our economy. This makes software protection an increasingly…

The CmStick/M, a CodeMeter dongle with a USB interface and integrated flash memory, was first introduced in 2004. Since its inception,…

Asymmetric signatures rely on fingerprints that are signed with private keys. With the public key of the signatory, anybody can check…

A common use case of software certificates is code signing: the developer of a software application signs the code with a private key.…

The many versions of the AxProtector technology for different software application types offer the right protection for your specific…

CodeMeter is designed as a single comprehensive solution that offers numerous benefits for software vendors (ISVs) and users alike. The…

Protecting software should be simple and secure. Two mutually exclusive goals? They do not have to be. Learn how to integrate fraud…

Maybe you‘ve read my article “Software protection from a hacker‘s perspective“ in one of the last issues of KEYnote. In this article I…

Many trends come. Some stay, others find a niche, but most disappear for good. It can be just as fatal for an organization to miss a…

Software development is a time consuming and costly business for a software vendor. The end product often contains extensive specialist…

“I use standard certificates so I’m safe.” The only safe thing to say about this statement is that one cannot safely say if it’s true…

Мы должны знать намерения своих врагов. “You need to know the arguments of your enemies” replied an aristocratic landowner in a Russian…

How good is good software protection? As a software developer what do I need to think about during development to make sure my software…

CodeMeter SmartBind describes the new concept to bind licenses, i.e. digital rights, to a computer or other specific device. CodeMeter…

This month we’re excited to announce three new products: the world’s smallest dongle, a CmStick with a battery, and a CmCard for…