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The concept of a license pool is fairly unique to Nitro-LM. Â Each pool is attached to a company. Â A company can have as many different pools as you can define. Â It really depends on how complex you need to make your access restriction rules. Â Using the concept of pools, you can do some unique things like bundling software into suites. Â For example, if you had three software products, you could put 5 licenses in a pool and allow the customer to use those 5 licenses in any way they chose across the products. Â Need more developers using product A this week? Â No problem, just release the license from product B and use them in A. Â In a nutshell, a pool is a group of licenses along with all the rules for getting access to those licenses.
Rules are broken down into three categories: product associations, usage restrictions, and access restrictions.
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In part two, we cover using the Asset Encrypter to encrypt AIR module swfs. This demo also contains a before and after look at the code using a decompiler.
In this two-part article, I’m going to run through a quick demo of how to protect the source code in an AIR app from decompilers using the Nitro-LM module encryption technique. Nitro-LM is a hosted licensing solution that can be enabled in your flex/AIR app for a nominal fee per license.
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Modifying or replacing a DLL is one way that a hacker can gain access to your protected application. If you’re using the Nitro-LM solution with the DLL client, or even if you’re only interested in protecting your own DLLs, the solution provided here should prove useful to you. For our purposes, we’ll focus on how you can code your application to prevent tampering on the nitrolm.dll inside a C++ application.
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Here is another screen-cam of the team’s in-process Administration tool written in Flex. This video highlights the new menu navigation system. As with many flex apps, this menu component borrows from open source and combines it with proprietary code to create a seamless user experience.
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Andrew Westberg was recently featured on The Flex Show broadcasting from 360|Flex San Jose talking about Nitro-LM.
The team is in the process of developing a new Adobe Flex Administration tool for Nitro-LM. Here is a short video from the User Management screen. It allows you to search for users, and see their relationships to computers, software, companies, and other users.
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Adobe this week has announced the release of Adobe Flex-3 Builder and Adobe AIR 1.0 (Adobe Integrated Runtime). The playing field for the process of software development and delivery is about to change in some major ways…