[Krzysztof]

Hi!

What it envisioned future of hardware based licensing – Thales/Gemalto HL based? What about network license keys (announced as not available to new customers?).

[Darim Rahmatallah]

Hi Krzysztof,

The HL keys are our flagship HW offerings and are one of our most important products. The Network keys are now the same as the standalone keys. Please reach out to your account manager for more details.

Many Thanks

Darim

[Steffen Rehnig]

Hi Krzysztof,

we believe that in certain scenarios Hardware keys still play an important role, even though the demand is slowly decreasing This also includes HW keys that enable network licensing.

[Krzysztof]

Do you already have EOL/EOS envisioned? And if yes, then what platform would replace it?

[Steffen Rehnig]

For HW keys our current product line (and HW platform) is “Sentinel HL”. No EOL or EOS is planned. This platform can also be programmed to suppport older technologies (e.g. Superpro).

[Krzysztof]

Stefan. Thank you for very quick answer. What about the Network Key? Do you know how long this would be available to purchase for existing customers?

That would be important in looking to when we would be faced with migrating to pushing network licenses into HL keys instead of just getting network enabled keys.

Chris

[Steffen Rehnig]

Hi Krzysztof,

no EOL is planned for both to my knowledge. Your account manager will have all the details. He will also be able to identify the optimal strategy moving forward together with you.

[Krzysztof]

Thank you!

[Krzysztof]

The main reason use Sentinel=>Gemalto=>Thales(now) licensing hardware+software was to concentrate on core business and leave dealing with complexities of keeping licensing software and hardware secure to third party.

We would certainly appreciate more transparency when/if trouble arises and there are hacks / cracks surfacing. There is nothing bad if these surface, provided that you are quickly on top of it and provide clear information to your licensing SDKs users on what the threat is and how it will be dealt with.

It would be pretty bad story at the end if customer reports back to us and tells “hey, and btw the license keys you use can be easily emulated” leaving us in the dark on what is going on.

Chris

[Krzysztof]

… one thing to add. We are very happy with software/hardware licensing provided. I did not want to sound negative – and i am sorry if my previous post looked like that.

[Steffen Rehnig]

Hi Krzysztof,

thank you for that feedback, much appreciated. To your earlier comment, I hear you. However, this is a bit more complex and can´t be answered here in a generic way. In any case – Depending on the exact scenario I believe that it is possible to harden the licensing implementation – please (since this chat won´t do for this) reach out to your sales rep to discuss in more depth.

[Krzysztof]

Will do!

Steffen, this is really appreciated.

Thank you!