Obsidium is a feature-rich professional software protection and licensing system that was designed as a cost effective and easy to implement, yet reliable and non-invasive way to protect your 32- and 64-bit Windows software applications and games from reverse engineering, unauthorized modifications ("cracking") and redistribution ("software piracy") while providing a secure and flexible licensing/registration system.

It is primarily aimed at software companies and individual developers who would like to provide feature- or time-limited evaluation versions of their software products, but also allows for the implementation of a wide range of custom licensing scenarios.

The 32-bit version and any protected executables it generates are fully compatible with any NT-based1 Windows operating system ranging from Windows NT 4 SP6 to Windows 10 (both 32- and 64-bit versions). It only supports protection of 32-bit executables.

The 64-bit version and any protected executables it generates are fully compatible with any 64-bit Windows operating system starting from Windows XP x64. It only supports protection of 64-bit executables.

Both version support virtually all types of natively compiled applications (EXE, DLL, SCR, etc.) as well as .NET executables. Protected applications are fully compatible with current security technologies such as DEP, UAC and ASLR.

Obsidium itself requires at least Windows 2000 (32-bit) or Windows XP x64 (64-bit) or a later version.

Key Features

Code Virtualization
Code Virtualization allows you to transform certain parts of your application's code in order to make them harder to reverse-engineer, understand or modifiy. Native machine code will be converted into functionally equivalent byte code for a virtual CPU that is interpreted during runtime.

Encryption, compression and obfuscation of application code and data
In order to prevent disassembly and static analysis or modification of your program file on disk, your application's code and data will be encrypted using a strong and fast cipher (AES) and its integrity verified. Additionally, you may choose to compress your application which will typically reduce the size of the executable by more than 50 percent.

Runtime code encryption
Important parts of your code can be encrypted individually, providing extra protection against modifications while the program is running. Protected code will only be decrypted in memory while it is being executed. You may also protect code in such a way that it can only be decrypted if a valid license key is present.

Time trials
Obsidium allows you to easily integrate time trial functionality into your software in order to create time-based 'Try Before You Buy' applications. You may specify a fixed expiration date or set the application to expire after a certain number of days or executions.

Integrated licensing systems using strong public key cryptography
Obsidium offers two built-in licensing systems that take advantage of high security asymmetric encryption to prevent generation of fake license keys. Depending on your individual needs, you may choose between long and short license keys (using RSA and elliptic curve cryptography, respectively) which can be delivered to your customers in binary or textual form. Both types of license keys support fixed expiration dates, hardware locking and license dependent code encryption. Both internal licensing systems enable you to store some additional data in generated license keys, allowing you to implement custom licensing models.

Dongle support2
Obsidium features built-in support for two different types of USB dongles manufactured by Senselock.

USB Licensing
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USB Licensing2
USB Licensing allows licenses to be locked to virtually any USB device such as flash drives, thus offering simple and inexpensive dongle-like functionality.

Protection SDK directly supporting Visual C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Visual Basic, C# and others
Include files and sample applications demonstrating the use of advanced features and the comprehensive protection API are included in the Obsidium package.

Network Licensing App Certificate
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Network Licensing2
Easily adopt a concurrent user licensing model using the Network Licensing feature. After buying a pool of floating licenses, end-users install a Network Licensing Service in their local corporate network, which manages and distributes licenses to individual users within the network. Flexible licensing options allow for the adaptation to most common usage scenarios.

String Protection
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Transparent string protection
Obsidium's string protection feature allows you to transparently hide string constants used throughout your application by removing them from their original memory location and placing them inside the protection code, thus making analysis of protected applications even more time-consuming.

Automation of protection and license generation
If supported by your development environment, newly compiled applications can be protected immediately using a dedicated command line version of Obsidium which allows direct access to almost all of its features. Moreover, a license key generation library is included (as a Windows DLL and Linux CGI) that can easily be integrated into your existing or a third party online licensing/activation service. Try it online.

Transparency and ease of implementation
Implementing Obsidium in your application is quite easy and does not require any advanced programming skills. The protection system is completely self-contained and does not depend on the installation of additional components such as services or drivers. It is fully transparent while applications are in an unprotected state and does not interfere with your usual development and debugging process.

Counter-measures against disassembling, debugging, dumping and patching
Obsidium implements a number of counter-measures against various techniques and tools commonly used by crackers.

Blacklisting of stolen or compromised license keys
License keys that were stolen (e.g. by credit card fraud) or leaked by a customer can be added to a blacklist, thus invalidating the offending licenses in the next release of your software.

Integrated customer database
Obsidium's integrated user database allows you to keep track of your customers and any license keys you issued to them.

Hardware locking
License keys may be locked to a specific system by computing a unique digital fingerprint using a user-defined list of system components such as CPU, mainboard, operating system, hard disk and MAC address.

Watermarks
Securely embed watermark data into protected files in order to further discourage unauthorized redistribution and trace software leaks back to their source.

File integrity checks
Protected applications can be configured to validate a user-defined list of files during startup and refuse to run if any unauthorized modifications are detected.

Transparent data file encryption
Data file encryption will transparently intercept read/write operations to a user-defined set of files and encrypt/decrypt any data written to/read from these files. This feature allows your application to securely access data files containing sensitive information without having to implement any encryption routines yourself.

Full Unicode compatibility
Password protection
For additional protection or to prevent unauthorized use of your software, a password may be selected that has to be entered in order to start the program.

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