The electronic dongles of the Guardant family feature the latest achievements in the area of software/hardware protection.
The core element of Guardant dongles is a microcontroller. Its program processes the information and runs the driver’s exchange protocol.
All Guardant dongles have non-volatile memory of various sizes depending on the dongle model.
Types of dongles
Local dongle | Local dongle works on a stand-alone computer. It serves for protection of only standalone (non-network) software. Local dongles are Guardant Sign, Guardant Time, Guardant Code и Guardant Code Time. |
Network dongle | A network dongle has a wider range of features. It can work both on stand-alone computers and on workstations and servers of a Local Area Network (LAN). Therefore, it can be used to protect standalone as well as network software. Network dongles are Guardant Sign Net и Guardant Time Net. |
Dongle's ID
Each dongle of the Guardant family contains a special 4-byte number – dongle’s ID. This ID is unique. It is recorded into the dongle as a factory setting and cannot be copied or changed by anyone including the developers of Guardant. The value of the ID can be used for establishing a fixed link between the protected application and this particular dongle. Use the diagnostics utility to view the dongle’s ID, or the utility for programming the dongles called GrdUtil.exe.