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<div class="left_inner_box_heading"><h1>CodeMeter not cracked at international Hacker's Contest</h1></div>
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<p>International proof of security</p>
<p>CodeMeter not cracked at international Hacker's Contest</p>
<p>Hanover (CeBIT) - Today, the fourth Hacker's hosted by Wibu-Systems<br />
closed. The task was to by-pass of the software protection solution<br />
CodeMeter that was developed by Wibu-Systems. The competition started<br />
on February 1, 0:00 CET and ended on March 14, 23:59 CET. All in all,<br />
1,092 contestants from 27 countries participated. Most of the<br />
participants were located in Germany, followed by China, the United<br />
States, the Netherlands, Poland, Hungary, France, Great Britain and<br />
the Ukraine.</p>
<p>No protection solution can offer 100% protection. This time the<br />
competition was extremely exciting because each contestant had<br />
received the protected software together with the suitable license<br />
stored in a CmStick, the dongle. Both are necessary for executing the<br />
competition software on their PC. For a second function in the<br />
competition software the license bit in the CmStick wasn't set. Here<br />
the encryption would be cracked - which is nearly impossible - or the<br />
license bit in the dongle or software would be manipulated.</p>
<p>But today, after exactly six weeks, it is certain: no contestant was<br />
able to crack the protection. Oliver Winzenried, C.E.O. of<br />
Wibu-Systems AG, said: "We hoped that our solution CodeMeter held out<br />
against attacks and now we are especially pleased about the fantastic<br />
result. There are plenty of protection solutions available on the<br />
market with their advantages and disadvantages. One of the most<br />
important features is the protection level in addition to flexibility<br />
and license management. Here we have given proof of the security of<br />
our solutions in public as a worldwide first manufacturer of software<br />
protection solutions."</p>
<p>Next to the usage of approved secure encryption algorithms and the<br />
secure storage of keys in a Smart Card Chip in the CmStick, it is<br />
characterized by the identification of hacking attacks so that the<br />
license in the hardware will be disabled through a policy registered<br />
for a patent by Wibu-Systems. Many of the contestants have addressed<br />
exactly this problem and some of them asked for a second activation.<br />
If the license in the CmStick is disabled, the competition program<br />
can't be executed. This is comparable to what would happen if a<br />
CmStick was not connected.</p>
<p>Only some contestants in Germany, China and one of Poland have sent<br />
partial solutions that will be rewarded each time with 1,000 Euro by<br />
Wibu-Systems. They provided suggestions for the company for improving<br />
the protection mechanisms further. Oliver Winzenried says: "Of course<br />
it was the ambition of this contest to show that our solutions<br />
provide a high level of security. Additionally it was an important<br />
purpose to find unknown weak points for improving the security<br />
level." Christoph Fischer, an accepted IT security specialist, says:<br />
"The contest shows clearly that even if there is no 100% protection<br />
possible in all areas, top-quality solutions can provide a sufficient<br />
high barrier against cracking even through specialists."</p>
<p>At the end the competition was worth it for all involved:<br />
Wibu-Systems didn't need to pay off the complete prize and received<br />
invaluable ideas for a continuous improvement of the software<br />
protection on the interest of all vendors of software and digital<br />
content. The contestants have received a CmStick for an attractive<br />
price and they can use its personal "security suite" further on. And<br />
the senders of a partial solution have received an attractive<br />
consolation prize.</p>
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