CrypKey is a serious software license control system that offers you protection from illegal copying, and confidence that people can only run your software on your terms, without requiring a hardware key or disk key. If your program is supposed to run for 30 days on a trial basis, it will, and the only way anyone can run your software after the trial period is to get your authorization by phone, fax, e-mail or C.A.S.P.E.R.. Whether you are controlling the number of network seats, the number of days of use, the number of calculations, any specific program options, or whether to run at all, what they get is only what you authorize!

CrypKey even has a pre-authorization option, so that people downloading your software from your website can run the software for a predetermined trial period with full security. They don't have to contact you until they want to buy the software, and if you use C.A.S.P.E.R., they don't have to contact you at all.

CrypKey is not a simple time-check, hidden-file-based system. It is a sophisticated encryption tool that knows with certainty, whether a specific computer is allowed to run or perform particular functions with your software, and you control every aspect of those limitations!

CrypKey will allow your customers to transfer an authorized copy of your software to another computer, but de-installs the first computer's authorization first. Because the authorization is computer-specific, it doesn't matter who gets a copy of it, whether it's the original program disks, or even a copy from an authorized computer. Enjoy distributing your software to everyone with a secure protected software product. There is no need to worry, you will now be paid for every copy of your software.

CrypKey is secure as a hardware key, because we believe that it is, yet without all the negatives of a hardware key. CrypKey offers an unparalleled combination for security, reliability, economy and licensing features. It’s easy to integrate & even easier to support.

Top Quality Software Security product -- CrypKey. The only answer to Software security.

Encourage everyone to copy and distribute your disks, download your software from your website, loan it to friends, family and co-workers; send copies to anyone and everyone. It's like enjoying the marketing benefits of unprotected software, yet with the security of protected software. CrypKey seems almost magical in its operation. Every day, we hear from a skeptical developer who doesn't believe that CrypKey can do what we say, but it truly works, and works extremely well.

We say it is a secure as a hardware key, because we believe that it is, yet without all the negatives of a hardware key. On the surface, most software licensing systems sound similar, but if you look closer, you will discover, just as we are told by developers on a regular basis, that CrypKey offers an unparalleled combination for security, reliability, economy and licensing features. It's easy to integrate & even easier to support.

Whether you have 50 users or 500,000, CrypKey offers you licensing capabilities that once existed only in your imagination.

CrypKey is regularly evaluated by professional programmers, and their findings repeatedly demonstrate that CrypKey has many advantages over other copy-protection systems. Here are some of the issues we think will help you feel comfortable choosing CrypKey.

High Quality Software
Robust and reliable by design, our software is not vulnerable to operating system and driver problems that other protection systems have.

CrypKey was introduced in 1992, and we've already resolved problems that competitors have yet to even discover. With CrypKey, when your software is supposed to work, it does, and when it’s not supposed to, it won’t. CrypKey is intelligent, CrypKey is not vulnerable to many issues that cause difficulties with other software-based protection systems, such as back-dating, re-installation and hard-disk de-fragmentation.

CrypKey solves other potential technology problems too, for example, CrypKey is fully compatible with Windows95B, which employs a 32-bit file allocation system known as FAT-32. Before you consider any form of copy protection, ask whether it supports Win95B!

Easier to Support
By using our software, your technical support can focus on your software issues, instead of the copy-protection system. Many of our users have used other copy-protection systems prior to CrypKey, and compliment us on the reliability of our product.

Superior to Hardware Keys
In the past, hardware keys were considered the best method available for software protection, but that has changed. Our software-based licensing system is superior to hardware keys for many reasons.

Incorporating CrypKey
There are several ways to incorporate CrypKey. The two most common ways are using either the Software Developer Kit, or Instant. With our SDK, you typically make CrypKey function calls in your source code, then compile and link to CrypKey's libraries. Once incorporated, you can use CrypKey's authorization process to control whether and how your software operates.

The Authorization Process
To understand how CrypKey operates is to understand the Authorization Process. This is how you tell the user's computer whether it can run, and what the limitations or conditions of that operation are. It involves the simple exchange of a "Site CODE" from the user's computer, and a "Site KEY" from you. During a typical authorization, the user tries to run your software, and is greeted with a message from your software, such as this:

"You are not authorized to run this software, please contact "your company" for authorization."