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Protection Against Cloning

Machine cloning involves copying the entire image of one machine (including your software and its legitimate license) to one or more other machines. With Sentinel LDK, you have the ability to detect probable machine cloning and to disable software that is locked to Sentinel SL keys until you are satisfied that the user has a legitimate license for your software.

Sentinel LDK can detect probable cloning regardless of whether the machine cloned is a physical computer or a virtual machine. (For more information on clone detection, see the Sentinel LDK Software Protection and Licensing Guide.)

You specify that you want clone protection to be applied to a Product at the time that you are creating or updating a Product.

When the Sentinel LDK Run-time detects cloning, it disables the licenses for which clone protection was specified. The end user is unable to log on to the software for which cloned licenses have been detected. The end user must contact your vendor representative and submit a C2V file from the machine on which the cloned license was detected, along with their Product Key, in order to have the cloned key updated and the Product activated.

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