[quote=364454:@Christoph De Vocht]FYI Dondles are nowadays very easy to crack. They now just copy the dondles data (including the code it runs) in a dongle emulator (which even emulates the dongle cpu)
On a side note: The very first dongle emulator was for the uncrackable Steinberg Cubase.
The current most used dongle is PACE which is already cracked with the same emulation technique.
Not sure a dongle is worth it. Even for very expensive software.[/quote]
his target audience is very limited, and the customers almost all know each other.
no craker will lose time hacking his software.
he can put the security level he wants, by randomizing enough the dongle access, ( for example ask dongle only the first sunday between 14 and 16 with random bytes #214) the cracker will need lots of time to record all his dongle and make a clone.
and again, small audience, so a dongle fits perfectly for this.
for large audience app (like cubase) dongles sucks .