The Dongles

A dongle is a small piece of hardware that connects to a computer or laptop. Dongles are used by some proprietary vendors as a form of copy protection or digital rights management, because it is much harder to copy a dongle than to copy the software it authenticates. there are many differnet types of dongles but normally the serial or the parallel interface is useds the most. It provides easier approch for PC and Macintosh software or any other speical feature product for developers to look for and choose suitable tools for preventing the illegal use of their product. Forexample, Micro Macro has been famous for a long time for its MicroGuard dongle series for Macintosh, PC and NEC computers. Among these, MicroGuard Plus is the most popular dongle, used with Macintosh software. At the core of this dongle is a powerful microcontroller, implementing a three-layer protection mechanism. Now a days,Agfa, Adobe, Kodak, Fuji. Micro Macro is among four leading companies, manufacturing USB dongles. The main thing in Functional features of the new USB bus allows the USB dongles to add to their function of software protection and become a means of user identity authentification. A combination of these two functions allow the vendor of any tecnical product safe and secure. Historically, it is assummed that the WORDCRAFT was the first program to use a software protection dongle, in 1980.