I want to use dongle to protect my S/W. But I don't know how?
How to Programe it, how to set it with my S/W?
2007-06-01 18:57:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
A dongle is a piece of hardware that has to be plugged into the computer somehow (possibly through a USB port) or the software that requires it will simply refuse to run.
Sorry but I don't know how to go about setting up your software to use one.
2007-06-01 19:04:50 · answer #1 · answered by mblaine 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dongle is a device that plugs into to your PC. It gets its name because some of these hardware devices have a short piece of cable attached and would hang or dangle on the back of the PC...
A Dongle can be an adapter that provids additional connectors which are infrequently used. (RS232 serial, A/V jacks ect)
Some dongles Dongles provided a means of copy protection where the program would not work without a special dongle being attached to the PC. Even though you could copy & distribute the software it would be nearly impossible for the average used to duplicate and distribute the hardware...
If you want to protect software you have written check out companies like Aladdin OR KeyLoc
Look for a development kit
2007-06-02 09:35:01 · answer #2 · answered by MarkG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not particularly sure how to program for it, but the idea is to allow only ONE instance of your program to run at a time.
in other words....a company can install it on ALL their machines, but only the system with the dongle will run......this will enforce your licensing......there usually is not problem with multiple installs, just multiple instances of running software.
This was a very popular means of Copyright and license protection in the 80's and 90's. But today you could probably set up a website to take care of this where the system would need to communicate to your site before running the software.....this is probably easier to maintain and you can change the rules if you like
2007-06-02 13:53:36 · answer #3 · answered by Jeffrey F 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A dongle is a usb device which will work according their software and you can say it is a lock to the software.with out that lock you cannot use the software.
2007-06-02 16:05:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no idea
2007-06-02 02:02:40 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋