Making a custom fingerprint ?

Good day,

I am experimenting with LimeLM and I made a little sample and activated it no problem. It was wonderfully easy but now comes the harder questions.

Is there any possibility of creating my own custom ID. I can see how I could add a custom field to augment the default fingerprint but I am not sure I can substitute my own finger print. Here is the real world example.

We have a commercial application that has been in existence for a long while using FlexLM & Hasp dongles and we'd love to kick FlexLM to the curb. For some of our licensing usage models I would prefer to use only the Hasp dongle as my unique system ID. Thus allowing a user to run the application on any machine that the dongle is plugged into. It doesn't seem like I'll be able to achieve that with LimeLM but I'm hoping someone will tell me that I am wrong.

Thanks for any help, Mark

Hey Mark,

The short answer: no, we don't support custom fingerprints or customizing what TurboActivate, TurboFloat, and LimeLM use for the fingerprint of the computer. We have a proprietary algorithm which is very, very good at fingerprinting computers (very low false positives and false negatives).

The longer answer: Our fingerprinting algorithm is unique from competitors algorithms. We don't require a dongle to be able to uniquely identify computers. Nor do we need a dongle to limit running your app to a fixed number of computers (for example, on letting your app run on a single computer).

If the customer wants to move between computers using LimeLM there are a couple of choices:

1. Use TurboActivate and let the customer deactivate your app from a menu. See: http://wyday.com/limelm/help/activations/

2. Use TurboFloat (our concurrent licensing product) and the customer can just open your app and close them without worrying about deactivating first. See: http://wyday.com/limelm/help/using-turbofloat/

It sounds like with your example of how customers are currently using dongles that the first option will be best for you.

Would that be workable for you and your customers?

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