Home Biometrics FAQs Company Profile Product Support Download FAQ Contact Us Hardware Locks, Fingerprint Access Control,Digital Certificate Storage From WYSE 1. What is a hardware lock? Hardware lock devices or "dongles" are hardware modules that connect to your computer and communicate with software running on the computer. Once you start the software protected with hardware lock on the computer, it searches for the hardware lock on the computer I/O port's. If the hardware lock is attached to it, then access is given to the protected software. The most common type of hardware lock device attaches to the printer port and provides a "pass-through" port to connect a printer cable. Hardware lock devices usually incorporate some kind of algorithmic encryption in their on-board micro-electronic circuitry; in some models of hardware locks (like the Sentry) these encryption algorithms can be very advanced. 2. What are other means for Software Security? There are also some other means for Software Security like… 1. KEYDISK During execution, the protected software demands insertion of special Key disk in specified drive, failing which the software execution halts. Disadvantages 1. Some advanced Copydisk programs can duplicate Key Disk 1. Some advanced Copydisk programs can duplicate Key Disk 2. A floppy is not a reliable media over a period of time and is also subject to 3. Back-up copies of the original software cannot be made. 2. SOFTWARE LOCK 2.1.Software locks are cheaper than hardware locks in the beginning, but the operational and tracking costs over a period of time, along with cost of the utilities and libraries you pay over a volume, makes it more costlier than a hardware lock solution. 2.2 Software manufacturing and distribution gets slowed by the very nature of the exchange of keys 2.3 Software based locks considerably inflate the size of your application, and may increase the loading time. 3. Software locks generally rely on identification of PC's peripherals like Hard disk volume number, network card address, CPU ID etc., which makes the software non-portable. 3. How does the Sentry Hardware Lock protect my application? When a protected application is run on a system, it will search the computer's I/O ports for a Sentry hardware lock. If the Sentry hardware lock is attached it will communicate to the software. If the Sentry hardware lock is not attached to the computer's I/O port, the software application would receive a specific error. It is primarily up to the developer to determine what sort of action to take when this error occurs. (like the software won't run, software runs in a limited mode, etc.) 4. What operating systems does Sentry Hardware locks support? We currently support DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows ME and Windows NT. 5. Which languages does Sentry Hardware locks support? Sentry Hardware lock currently support the following languages...
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Press Release © 2007 WYSE Biometrics Systems Pvt. Ltd. All Rights Reserved Separate DLLs are provided which the developer can choose while installing * Both approaches need the Windows Sockets protocols (1.0 onwards) to be installed on the workstation. * The Client needs to be either Novel Netware Client 32(for 95/98//ME/2000) or a standard Microsoft Client for Novell Netware. * The win 32 Client is provided with an API in the form of DLL which communicates with the server, and makes the required transactions over IPX/SPX protocols. * The NLM, at the time of loading, gets automatically configured to the number of users assigned in the lock. * The number of user is controlled by a variable stored in the non- volatile memory of the lock and can be modified by a developer using the lanuserm.exe utility. * The NLM also controls the number of users allowed to use the protected software. * The NLM incorporates multithread concepts and can process any numbers of requests apart from controlling the execution of protected software. * The NLM (MULTIX.NLM) to be loaded on server monitors the incoming request and validates them if the Server's printer port is fitted with the Hardware Lock of required identity. * Sentry Hardware lock is supported on Novell Netware under the Netware Loadable Module (NLM) scheme. 2. Network Environment (Under Novell NetWare Client & Socket based) It must have the TCP/IP installed on every node as the basic back-bone. The communication executed in this process is primarily based on Windows Sockets 1.1 and is compatible with Windows Sockets 2.0. The other nodes communicate with the Lock server by means of a function provided in DLL/LIB, and execute the suitable action. The node on which the Sentry is installed acts as a server by executing the server program. This server program announces the presence of Sentry Lock to all the nodes, thereby allowing the nodes on the network to access the lock. Sentry can be used under Windows NT/2000/95/98/ME Network as per the following scheme: On a given Windows based network, Sentry is to be fitted on one of the network nodes and the other nodes can access the lock by means of the protocol DLLs and server provided. 1. Network Environment (TCP/IP) based.. The Sentry hardware Lock system offers Software copy protection to Standalone PC's and in networks. The Sentry hardware lock supplies different versions of lock for standalone PCs and networks. The Sentry hardware lock supports the following Network Environment... 7. How can Sentry Hardware lock can be implement in the network? Yes, The Sentry Hardware lock usually sits beside all standard parallel port communication, and will only be activated when a specific call to the key is made. Sentry Hardware lock is transparent all kind of parallel port devices such as printers, Zip drives, scanners etc. 6. If the Sentry hardware lock is attached to the parallel port, will it be transparent with other parallel port devices? For other language support contact sales@wyse.co.in Testimonials WYSE's eSentry Internet authentication device has proved to be an ideal choice for our web enabled application. we wanted to assure our client full security and wanted an API that we could cusomize. The WYSE internet authentication device excels at both these aspects. .........