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Air-Gapped License Validation Now Available

February 12, 2025
Edmon MorenEdmon Moren
Edmon Moren
Edmon Moren

Edmon Moren is a technology entrepreneur and business leader best known as the CEO and co-founder of LicenseSpring, a software licensing platform. The company was founded around 2015, originally to solve licensing challenges for another product.

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We've have many customers ask for a way to node-lock licenses to devices that run in dark sites: networks not only without access to the internet, but where files are not allowed to leave the site. For this use-case, We are pleased to introduce our Air-gapped Licensing Activation mechanism! Our Air-gapped licensing process is cryptographically secure, so it cannot be "cracked" by any brute force techniques.

 

How air-gapped licensing works in simple terms:

  • The Vendor creates license policy files specifically marked as air-gapped license policies. You package them with the applications you distribute.

  • The Vendor issues a license key to authorize a specific license for a given device, which the end user enters on that specific device

  • The End user generates an initialization code from our air-gapped portal, which they enter into the application, along with their license key

  • Finally, the end user retrieves a confirmation code from our portal by entering an activation code and their hardwareID. Once they enter it, the binding process is complete!

We even included a sample application with our SDKs to make it easy to learn how to implement it in your application, which looks like this:

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This works for for license policies such as perpetual, time-limited, and features licensing.

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