UniKey Drive Protection Solution

Part I Introduction to SecuTech & UniKey Drive

1) Introduction to SecuTech

SecuTech Solution Inc. founded in 2005, is the global leader in providing software protection and license management solution, secure managed portable storage, two-factor authentication, and cloud computing. Its best-of-breed product portfolio meets the highest security, performance, and privacy standards of the most demanding software vendors, enterprise, government, and financial customers. SecuTech' UniKey Software Rights Management products are the 1st Driverless Hardware key choice of software developers and publishers to protect intellectual property, increase revenues, and reduce losses from software piracy. UniToken is a USB-based authentication solution. The UniToken secure Web gateway provides the most advanced protection against the latest Web-based threats and attacks. UniOTP is an open, flexible authentication solution that supports any form of authentication, including Windows Logon, Active Directory authenticating, cloud computing, and mobile authentication, it is natural that SecuTech includes OATH compatibility within its UniOTP two-factor authentication architecture. Over 1,000 customers in 62 countries choose SecuTech security products to protect their invaluable data and networks. SecuTech has resellers and offices in 16 countries, a worldwide network of channel partners, and has won numerous awards for innovation. SecuTech is a privately-held company headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

2) Introduction to UniKey Drive

UniKey Drive is the first driverless dongle with secure mass storage. It offers a complete solution to store your application’s data files and your application securely. Coupled with a Smartcard, if offers the best way to protect your application and distribute it on a single support. Besides, it offers all the other advantages offered by UniKey STD and PRO, i.e. hardware-based protection, hardware-based encryption, secure communication between the software and the dongle, cross-network licenses management, etc. "UniKey Drive is the most ideal container for your software and software license. Its password protected drive and hidden drive enable secure data access for software vendors"

These four parts total memory size is 2GB. And the special hidden part has the rest memory, and it cannot be seen even you have the password. You have to use UniKey Drive console or API in order to copy files in the hidden part. To access the files in the hidden part, you have to use UniKey API in your program source code to make some operations on it.

DESIGNED TO MEET THE NEEDS OF SINGLE USER USE AND MULTI-USERS Safely distribute your software with hardware-based UniKey protection. Your software cannot be launched without the right UniKey inserted in the end user’s computer USB port or found on the local network.

Driverless UniKey is driverless and let you avoid the problems such as driver not found and a huge load of work for the technical support team, since most of the dongle problems are caused by dongle drivers.

HID and SoftID to grant the authorization to use the software The protection takes advantages of HID (a unique hardware ID) and SoftID (an ID for your software) to grant the authorization to use the software..

Multiplatform Works on Windows (98*, 2000, XP, Vista, Seven) Mac OS X and Linux (2.4+)

Remote license update and management software Remotely update the license of your software, add/remove functionalities, extend the validity period.

Anti-cloning protection besides being invisible by the end user when plugged in the computer, UniKey comes with a protection system to prevent the cloning of UniKey by ill-disposed users

Versatile methods of licensing UniKey let you implement easily many types of licenses, time-based, feature-based, floating license**, etc.

Many supported programming languages Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual Foxpro, Delphi, Borland C++ Builder, PowerBuilder, LabView, WinDEV, Java, FileMaker, Clarion, Visual Basic.NET, Visual C#.Net,Visual C++.NET,Fortran, Visual DataFlex,Access, AutoCAD,dBaseFortran, Director,LabWindows, Matlab,MinGW, NSIS,Visual Object Cobol, PureBasic and many more.

License management across local network UniKey DRIVE allows license management through the local network in a company. It is the best tool to distribute and manage license in a company. Only one UniKey can manage a whole company network.

AES 128-bit hardware encryption for all communications between key and software All the communications among clients and server are AES encrypted and digital signed

Coming with a mass-storage device UniKey Drive has a mass-storage device integrated. You can choose to group your software and your protection method (UniKey protection) in only one device and so make it more convenient for the final user.

Part II Data Protection Solution by Using UniKey Drive

1) The Logic for Data Protection Solution

The end users are able to simply plug in the UniKey Drive and play the data file without requirement of any special player installation. The main issue is that the end user would not get to copy or tamper with the file in any way or remove it from the drive. And there can also be no trace of the file on the computer after the drive is removed. The data file and the corresponding standalone player are both stored on the UniKey Drive. The end users would like to easily use the device by simply plug in and start to play the data. The protection is automatically implemented, data is stored on the hidden partition of the UniKey Drive, no one could be able to see the hidden partition, not to mention copy the data file or tamper with file in any way. The corresponding standalone players is also protected and bind with the UniKey Drive then be put into the virtual CD-ROM partition, another partition located on the UniKey Drive; this will simply bring convenience for the end user to run the player and start to work. What’s more the end user can’t run the protected player without inserting the correct UniKey Drive into the system. This will prevent the player be copied or used without being authorized.

By removing the UniKey Drive, both the player and the data file will be removed from the end user’s system.

2) Flow Chart for Data Protection Solution

3) Implementation for Data Protection Solution

As UniKey Drive has four unique partitions, we use two of them for implementing a complete protection for the customer’s data, one is the virtual CD-ROM partition and the other is the hidden partition. The player will be stored on the virtual CD-ROM partition; the data file will be store on the hidden partition. The venders will response to use the UniKey Tools or UniKey APIs to put the data file into the UniKey Drive’s hidden partition and put the encrypted and protected player into the UniKey Drive’s virtual CD-ROM partition. SecuTech will response to provide the UniKey Tools and UniKey APIs for the customer to put the data file into the UniKey Drive’s hidden partition and put the encrypted and protected player into the UniKey Drive’s virtual CD-ROM partition. And SecuTech also will response to provide a complete guide for the vender to use the UniKey Tools for implementing the features. By using the UniKey Tools, it is very easy for the venders to put the files into the UniKey Drive’s hidden partition, encrypt and protect the corresponding player and put the player into the UniKey Drive’s virtual CD-ROM partition.

Part III Customization for Data Protection Solution

1) Unique HID Range and Serial Number Range

Each UniKey Drive has a unique Hardware ID (HID) all around the world, and we can customize a unique HID range for customers.

Each UniKey Drive has a unique Serial Number in its metal plug, and we can customize a unique serial number range for customers.

2) Optional Metal Case Color

Each UniKey Drive’s metal case is black by default and we can customize a unique color for the metal case according the customer’s request.

3) Optional Laser Etching Logo

Each UniKey Drive is marked UniKey logo on the metal case cover by default and we can customize it to the customer’s company logo by using laser etching technique.

4) Optional Functions for Software

Customers will get the corresponding software to use the UniKey Drive, and we can customize the software to fit for the customers unique requests.