PACE Anti-Piracy Releases InterLok 5.0 for Macintosh
Extensive copy protection and anti-tampering toolset for software is the first to natively support Mach-O. New font protection and management system offered.
SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – July 16, 2003 – PACE Anti-Piracy Inc., a leader in the development and licensing of anti-piracy systems for software publishers, has released version 5.0 of InterLok® for Macintosh. This version works seamlessly with all Apple supported versions of the Mac OS.
The new release adds the ability to apply comprehensive copy protection to Mac OS X native Mach-O executables without requiring source code modifications – a first in the industry. This significant new feature will help many software publishers in their migration to native Mach-O applications by providing the reliable copy protection and license management tools from PACE. In addition, PACE is now offering a Mac OS X font copy protection system based on the InterLok tool set. These features can be used for pure software copy protection or hardware based copy protection using the optional iLok USB Smart key and related web site www.iLok.com.
“The development of this new InterLok version has followed an 18 year tradition of commitment to maximum security, advanced features, and ease-of-use,” said Allen Cronce, President and founder of PACE Anti-Piracy, “InterLok 5.0 for Macintosh raises the bar of software security for our customers while addressing their needs for a state of the art platform for copy protection of Mac OS X native software”.
InterLok 5.0 is the next-generation tool set for distributing and selling software in a flexible, cost-effective, and highly secure manner. The scalability of InterLok makes it a timely solution for software publishers and distributors who are simultaneously challenged by increasing peer-to-peer software sharing and decreasing development budgets. InterLok enables publishers to protect their software by wrapping an application in minutes with no source code changes or through the use of PACE’s comprehensive application programming interfaces.
“InterLok 5.0 re-introduces font protection tools to our line up” Andrew Kirk, VP of Business Development explains, “We have worked hard to support robust protection of all Mac OS X supported font formats including OpenType, TrueType, and CID. The architecture has been designed so that we can support other file types in the near future. Leveraging either direct Internet Activation or Manual Activation for systems off the network, PACE customers can build a robust platform for enforcing their licensing terms and supporting their paying customers”.
InterLok 5.0 continues to support the same range of software licensing features as previous InterLok versions: automated wrapping, easy integration into existing build systems, trialware and buy-before-you-try functionality, metering, software rental, remote feature/module control, iLok USB smart key support, web-based user registration, and automatic delivery of authorization via the Internet.
Earlier this year PACE launched www.iLok.com, a user services portal that supports the iLok USB smart key’s ability to hold multiple cross platform authorizations with various attributes such as license periods or feature enablement. The iLok is one of the most advanced USB dongles on the market today.
New Features and Benefits
• Native Mach-O Support: Support for automatic protection of Mach-O applications, Component Manager components, Audio Units and other Mach-O bundle-based shared libraries and plug-ins.
• Font Protection: Support for OS X font protection in a separately available module. End users can manage their protected fonts and licenses via PACE’s Font License System Preferences pane.
• Increased Security: New, highly secure anti-hacking, anti-debugging functionality designed to limit the piracy of code at runtime.
• Certificate-Based Signing: This version adds support for certificate based digital signatures for protected executables. While previous versions of InterLok supported digitally signing executables, this new version expands on that feature with new infrastructure using keys certified by PACE. This provides a mechanism by which one can know who signed a given executable, instead of just whether or not an executable was signed. This feature can be used to programmatically establish additional layers of trust between software components.
Availability of InterLok 5.0
InterLok 5.0 for Macintosh is available now as are the additional tools for font protection.
More information is available about InterLok and PACE's iLok USB Smart Key at http://www.paceap.com. A parity update for Windows for InterLok will be released this summer. PACE Sales may be contacted by phone at (408) 979-9774 x1 or at sales@paceap.com. Evaluation kits are available, for details please refer to the following http://www.paceap.com/docs/PACEEval.pdf
About PACE Anti-Piracy
PACE Anti-Piracy Inc. is a privately held company based in San Jose, California. Since 1985, PACE has provided software publishers and distributors with high quality solutions for secure software distribution. PACE’s products are used by hundreds of world-class software publishers around the world, including Adobe Systems, Bomb Factory, Corel, Digidesign, Dolby Laboratories, FontWorks Japan, InstallShield, Liquid Audio, Morisawa and Company, Network Associates, Nikon, Sanyo, Sonic Solutions, Steinberg, WAVES, and The Walt Disney Company.
Media Contact:
Andrew Kirk
Media Relations
Phone: 408-979-9774 ext 653
Fax: 408-979-9775
E-mail: andrew@paceap.com
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