Sabadille releases SmartLock USB software dongle

By Janet Harris

Sabadille Systems of France has released SmartLock, a driverless USB hardware dongle for software protection, to the USA and EMEA market.

SmartLock provides software publishers with strong copy protection and therefore secure licensing.

The SmartLock system is based on fully programmable CPU smart circuit technology consisting of an 8-bit CPU coupled with an 1024-byte EEPROM. It provides an extensive collection of sample code and it is designed to be easy to integrate.

The design of the system means that SmartLock is more secure than other simple ASIC and simple EEPROM dongle technologies.

The SmartLock dongle features a fully programmable 105-byte user memory space for uses such as licensing multiple applications with the same dongle, enabling different software editions, modules and features, storing application specific encrypted values and imposing limitations such as the number of times an application is allowed to run before acquiring more licenses.

The USB hardware lock operates at a low voltage and doesn’t compromise the performance of other devices or systems.

SmartLock supports many different development languages on most of the recent Windows and Linux platforms: ASP, Borland, Delphi, Java, MFC, PowerBuilder, VB.Net, Visual Basic, Visual C/C++, VC.NET, Visual FOXPRO.