CmReady Industrial Memory Card

CmReady - Plug and Play License Mobility with Industrial Memory Cards

Industrial customers from around the world  now have faster and easier access to software license management and protection. Swissbit  Data Protection (DP) memory cards have been  integrated with Wibu-Systems‘ CodeMeter technology. Offered in different form factors, the resulting CmReady® solution combines physical binding for software-based license containers with secure key storage in encrpted license files. Users can now enjoy the benefits of software protection, IP protection, and licensing with all the comfort of a mobile SD or microSD card. The DP cards from Swissbit already feature highest performance and enhanced security  capabilities across their product portfolio.  Not only do they include built-in data protection with AES 256-bit encryption, but they can also be partitioned into different logical areas, each with a configurable data protection policy that can be flexibly controlled (role-based access  control). Combined with CodeMeter, Swissbit‘s DP hardware provides the user experience of a mass storage device with protection and licensing capabilities. Best of all, with the secure DP hardware, the level of security of CmReady exceeds that of  a software-only IP protection solution and users can appreciate all the mobility of a traditional dongle.

CodeMeter Software Licensing and Software Protection for Industrial Systems

CodeMeter enables  software publishers and intelligent device  manufacturers to protect their digital assets against piracy and reverse engineering,  monetize software, firmware, and confidential data with versatile licensing models, and  provide a secure means of authentication for  people and machines alike. The confidential  digital data is stored in hardware (CmDongles), software (CmActLicenses), or cloud  (CmCloudContainers)  containers. A CmReady card offers a new alternative, positioned in terms of security and price point between CmDongles and CmActLicenses.

In the case of CmReady, the plug&play binding combines the hardware unique ID (UID) of the card with protected, monotonically increasing counters to prevent replay attacks against the license container. This raises the level of security compared to a mere software solution, where fingerprint and generation counter are bound to the host computer.

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