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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 18:50:03 +0100
From: Anthony Atkielski <atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr>
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Subject: Re: Hardware dongle with FreeBSD support?
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jonas writes:

> Background: The company I work for sells a system running on FreeBSD and we
> need to have this kind of copy protection and the possibility to store some
> bits of information on the dongle. Our current solutions already includes a
> parallel port dongle (WIBUKEY), but the driver for this one is capable to
> check for existence only, not to store to and retrieve information from it.
> So we are looking for an alternative.
>
> Anyone here who can recommend a dongle with decent support for FreeBSD?

See http://www.safenet-inc.com. They make dongles and (USB) hardware
keys for software products and they mention support for Linux and OS X,
so they may have something.

-- 
Anthony