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There's no one 'ilok' protection scheme, there are many. And most of them have been cracked.
by NikkiA 2y ago
There's no one 'ilok' protection scheme, there are many. And most of them have been cracked.
- tgv 2y agoHow so? I always figured it was simply a decryption service/library with the dongle serving as a the secret. So e.g. samples (or important information about the samples) can only be read when the dongle is present. Is that view too simple?
- NikkiA 2y agoI'm only able to go by what R2R put in their .nfos, since I've not tried reverse engineering ilok plugins at all. But they claim that different companies use different ilok algorithms, and some of them haven't been cracked, yet. Some seem to work a little like what you say, UVIs for example decrypt libraries against the ilok, and R2R has UVIEMU for that, but clearly it's not sufficient to crack all ilok plugins that way, or Softube's wouldn't remain uncracked. And since ilok doesn't require a dongle anymore - there are machine and cloud licensing options too, and developers can opt in or out to each of the 3 license holder systems...