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US 12,710,946 B2Granted
Methods and systems for creating uniquely identifiable software installations
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorAxel Haasch
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Abstract
Methods for generating a uniquely identifiable software installation are disclosed, A key pair of a private and a public key is generated for a software installation installed on a machine-readable medium. Random numbers supplemented with installation-specific data of the software installation are used to generate the key pair and the generated private key is securely stored. Also, a system, computer program, apparatus, machine readable data medium, and a data medium signal.
Claims22
A method for creating a uniquely identifiable software installation, the method comprising:
- installing a software installation of software on a machine-readable medium;
- generating a key pair comprising a private key and a public key for the installed software installation of software;
- creating random numbers during generation of the key pair;
- supplementing the created random numbers with installation-specific data of the software installation;
- generating the private key based on the random numbers supplemented with the installation-specific data, wherein the private key is configured to allow for software-entity-specific licensing options without including a hardware-based second factor dongle;
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- securely storing the generated private key.
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