The Steinberg Key is the key to Steinberg's world of professional audio tools. The purchase of this license key is required to run any of the new Steinberg VST instruments released after 1st January 2005, as these products will not contain a USB hardware protection device. 4) Enter User Name and paste the Serial Number and USB Key during installation. 5) Copy crack to install folder overwriting original. 6) Run the ReFX Nexus 2.4.1 USB-eLicenser Emulator and install it to the same destination folder.
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Please help if you can. ( July 2009) A software protection dongle (commonly known as a dongle or key) is an electronic and content protection device which, when attached to a computer or other electronic unlocks software functionality or decodes. The hardware key is programmed with a or other cryptographic protection mechanism; it attaches via electrical connector to an of the computer or appliance. When used as a software protection device, dongles mostly appear as two-interface security tokens with transient data flow that does not interfere with other dongle functions and a pull communication that reads security data from the dongle. Without the dongle, the software may run only in a restricted mode, or not at all.
When used as a device attached to a computer or TV or gaming console, dongles can enable functions that would not be present without it. For example, a dongle attached to a TV may receive an encoded video stream, decode it in the dongle, and then present this audio and video information to the TV. A Rainbow Tech parallel port dongle PCB, back side In late 1970s/early 1980s, Wordcraft became the earliest to use a software protection dongle. The dongle was passive using a 74LS165 8-bit shift register connected to one of the two ports on the microcomputer. The tape cassette port supplied both power and bi-directional data I/O.
The requirements for security were identified by the author of the Wordcraft word processor, Pete Dowson, and his colleague Mike Lake. Through the network of PET users in the UK they made contact with Graham Heggie in Coventry and Graham's knowledge of electronics meant that they quickly arrived at the idea of a 74LS165 shift register connected to the tape cassette port which provided 5V power and lines to shift the bits into the software. The shift register contained only 8 bits but with lines tied to ground or 5V at random it could provide a random number between 0 and 255 which was sufficient security for the software.
The prototype was on which dangled from the tape port edge connector on wires - so 'dangle' became 'dongle'. Pete Dowson wrote special self-modifying 6502 machine code to drive the port directly and to obfuscate the code when not in use. The first device used a commercial potting box with black or blue epoxy resin. Wordcraft's distributor at the time, Dataview Ltd., then based in, UK, went on to produce dongles for other software developers.
When Wordcraft International was formed in, UK, responsibility for manufacture was transferred to Brian Edmundson who also produced the plastic moulding for the enclosure. One of the greatest regrets of Graham, Pete and Mike was that they did not patent the idea when they came up with it. Versions of the Wordcraft dongle were later produced for IBM 25 pin parallel ports, 25 pin serial ports and 9 pin serial ports. Among the computers supported, before the arrival of the IBM PC, were 's Victor 9000, the ACT and the DEC. An early example of the term was in 1984, when early production were shipped with part of the QL firmware held on an external 16 KB ROM cartridge (infamously known as the ' or 'dongle'), until the QL was redesigned to increase the internal ROM capacity from 32 to 48 KB.
Dongles rapidly evolved into active devices that contained a serial transceiver and even a to handle transactions with the host. Later versions adopted the interface in preference to the or parallel interface. The USB interface is gradually becoming dominant. A 1992 advertisement for claimed the word dongle was derived from the name 'Don Gall'.
Though untrue, this has given rise to an. Parallel port copy protection dongles. Efforts to introduce dongle copy-protection in the mainstream software market have met stiff resistance from users. Such copy-protection is more typically used with very expensive packages and software such as / software, hospitality and special retail software, applications, and some packages. In cases such as prepress and printing software, the dongle is encoded with a specific, per-user license key, which enables particular features in the target application. This is a form of tightly controlled licensing, which allows the vendor to engage in vendor lock-in and charge more than it would otherwise for the product. An example is the way licenses to customers: When a computer-to-plate output device is sold to a customer, Prinergy's own license cost is provided separately to the customer, and the base price contains little more than the required licenses to output work to the device.
USB dongles are also a big part of 's audio production and editing systems, such as, WaveLab, and others. The dongle used by Steinberg's products is also known as a Steinberg Key. The Steinberg Key can be purchased separately from its counterpart applications and generally comes bundled with the 'Syncrosoft License Control Center' application, which is cross-platform compatible with both Mac OS X and Windows. Some software developers use traditional USB flash drives as software license dongles that contain hardware serial numbers in conjunction with the stored device ID strings, which are generally not easily changed by an end-user. A developer can also use the dongle to store user settings or even a complete 'portable' version of the application.
Not all flash drives are suitable for this use, as not all manufacturers install unique serial numbers into their devices. Although such medium security may deter a casual hacker, the lack of a processor core in the dongle to authenticate data, perform encryption/decryption, and execute inaccessible binary code makes such a passive dongle inappropriate for all but the lowest-priced software.
A simpler and even less secure option is to use unpartitioned or unallocated storage in the dongle to store license data. Common USB flash drives are relatively inexpensive compared to dedicated security dongle devices, but reading and storing data in a flash drive are easy to intercept, alter, and bypass. Issues There are potential weaknesses in the implementation of the protocol between the dongle and the copy-controlled software.
It requires considerable cunning to make this hard to. For example, a simple implementation might define a to check for the dongle's presence, returning 'true' or 'false' accordingly, but the dongle requirement can be easily circumvented by modifying the software to always answer 'true'. Modern dongles include built-in strong encryption and use fabrication techniques designed to thwart. Typical dongles also now contain — essential parts of the software may actually be stored and executed on the dongle. Thus dongles have become that execute program instructions that may be input to the cryptoprocessor only in encrypted form.
The original secure cryptoprocessor was designed for copy protection of personal computer software (see US Patent 4,168,396, Sept 18, 1979) to provide more security than dongles could then provide. Hardware cloning, where the dongle is emulated by a device driver, is also a threat to traditional dongles. To thwart this, some dongle vendors adopted smart card product, which is widely used in extremely rigid security requirement environments such as military and banking, in their dongle products. A more innovative modern dongle is designed with a process which transfers encrypted parts of the software vendor's program code or license enforcement into a secure hardware environment (such as in a smart card OS, mentioned above). An can port thousands of lines of important code into the dongle. Game consoles Some unlicensed titles for (such as or ) used dongles to connect to officially licensed, in order to circumvent the authentication chip embedded in the console.
Some devices, such as the and use a dongle. Typically it attaches to the memory card slot of the system, with the disc based software refusing to work if the dongle is not detected. The dongle is also used for holding settings and storage of new codes, added either by the user or through official updates, because the disc, being read only, cannot store them. Some dongles will also double as normal memory cards. See also. References.
Hi, this will maybe sound silly but I have to ask. Is there any way to emulate my own eLicenser? I am not asking someone else license, or an illegal license. I just want to know if it is possible to copy the whole data of the key and be able to use Cubase without this oversize stupid ass usb dongle. Because hacker can use this software for free, without this oversize usb dongle, and honest customer who paid for it are penalize with this piece of shit hardware!
It may sound like a no big deal for some of you, but for the way I use it, on the road, it is a real pain in the ass. I am always stressed out about loosing this dongle before an important work.and also for those who use a macbook pro with only 2 usb port, it really sucks to only have one port left either for the soundcard or for a midi controller. It would be great if Steinberg shrink down this hardware enough so I dont have to unplugged it to carry my laptop and incorporate a hub in it so I wont loose my usb port (Steinberg worker, if you read this, please take a note!). But until then, is there a way to emulate it?
Thank you. It throws up error messages although sometimes you can still save and close, re-insert the dongle and continue. A good tip is to get yourself a short USB extension cable.
That way the dongle is not a rigid thing sticking out of your port. Way harder to break, although still not ideal. Personally I don't know why they can't adopt the Propellerheads method. There's a hardware 'ignition key', but you can also authorize your computer as a key and you can use online activation. Your username and password is enough to unlock the software.
Of course you can only use one method at a time but it means you can work just about anywhere you have internet, and Reason 8 still hasn't been cracked yet. So what's Steinberg's excuse?!