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Posted On: 2008.12.02 22:21 (Tuesday)
Title: Silicon Realms Releases SoftwarePassport/Armadillo v6.24

The Silicon Realms Toolworks announces the immediate availability of SoftwarePassport/Armadillo v6.24. This version is a maintenance release that includes several important bug fixes. For details, see the revision histories in the help files ("SoftwarePassport User Guide" and "Armadillo Help").

NOTE: The help files are included in the SoftwarePassport/Armadillo installation, and available for downloading separately at http://www.siliconrealms.com/download/HelpFiles.zip.

SoftwarePassport/Armadillo v6.24 is available now. This is a free update for our customers who purchased or upgraded any product in the version 6.00 series. Your key for version 6.00 or later will register this new version.

If you have questions about this release, please contact our support staff at support@siliconrealms.com.

NOTE: SoftwarePassport and custom builds will be available tomorrow (Dec 3rd).

Regards,
The Silicon Realms Toolworks Team

Posted On: 2008.11.14 16:35 (Friday)
Title: Known Issues with SoftwarePassport/Armadillo v6.2.x

Since releasing SoftwarePassport/Armadillo v6.20 on October 29, we have received reports of some issues that we felt were important enough to point out in the interim while we work to fix them in our next release.

Version 6.20 was the first version that we had developed using Boost libraries. These libraries will extend our future capabilities in areas such as Unicode support, but they also introduced some compatibility issues that we will need to work out. Our Armadillo v6.22 release on November 5 corrected four bugs, and we are now working to address some additional issues that have come in since then.

The known issues at this time are:
  • There is a potential security issue related to the Stolen Codes feature. This issue has two parts:
    • When opening a project, v6.2.x does not properly read stolen codes for unsigned, V2 or V3 keys. (Short V3 keys are not affected.) If you then protect a program, it will not recognize stolen keys for the three key types previously noted. This issue will occur even if you never save the project.
    • Saving a project (whether created with v6.2.x or an earlier version) corrupts any Stolen Codes lists that have been set up. If you close that project and later open and use it to protect a program, that program will not recognize any of the stolen codes. (You can work around this issue by using the SoftwarePassport interface to save the projects, instead of Armadillo Classic.)
  • There is a possibility that starting an Open or Save dialog will hang a protected program. (* See the work-around below.)
If any of these issues affect your work processes, let us know and we can provide you with a pre-release build as soon as one is ready. You can contact us at support@siliconrealms.com to request a pre-release build.

* To work around the issue of protected programs hanging when starting Open or Save dialogs, make sure that comctl32.dll and ole32.dll are not in the list of DLLs to intercept, or set DLL interception to none.

Regards,
The Silicon Realms Toolworks Team
http://www.siliconrealms.com

Posted On: 2008.11.10 21:40 (Monday)
Title: Silicon Realms Introduces the SoftwarePassport Desktop Product Key Gen

The Silicon Realms Toolworks is pleased to announce the release of a new product, the SoftwarePassport Desktop Product Key Generator.

Product Overview:
  • Windows-based program
  • Will generate keys for any SoftwarePassport-protected program
  • Stand-alone product that does not require SoftwarePassport to be installed
  • Uses certificate settings from imported project (.ARM) files
  • Provides additional functions that include:
    • Creating FixClock keys
    • Checking Uninstall keys
    • Converting dates to SoftwarePassport format for use in generating date-expiration keys
    • Finding the date a key was created
  • Costs $50 USD, which allows you to generate 10,000 keys (see the special offer below)
  • You can "recharge" the available keys at any time by purchasing a new license
  • Will generate up to 50 keys in trial mode
To download the key generator, please use the link below.

http://www.siliconrealms.com/download/late...sktopkeygen.exe

You can purchase the key generator through this “Buy Now” option. [Buy Now!]

If you have questions about this release, please contact our support staff at support@siliconrealms.com.

Posted On: 2008.11.05 22:08 (Wednesday)
Title: Armadillo v6.22 released

The Silicon Realms Toolworks announces the immediate availability of SoftwarePassport/Armadillo v6.22. This version corrects some bugs that were discovered in our recent v6.20 release.

The fixes available in v6.22 are:
  • Attempting to protect multiple files would result in a "cannot open source file" error.
  • The Generate Key dialog did not allow creating keys for certificates that store the number of copies in the key.
  • Attempting to generate a v2 or v3 key would result in an unhandled exception.
  • Armadillo would sometimes generate an exception when attempting to load an ARM file that included a large amount of message screen HTML.
If you have questions about this release, please contact our support staff at support@siliconrealms.com.

Regards,
The Silicon Realms Toolworks Team

Posted On: 2008.10.29 19:26 (Wednesday)
Title: SoftwarePassport v6.2.0 & Armadillo v6.20 released

The Silicon Realms Toolworks announces the immediate availability of SoftwarePassport/Armadillo v6.20. This version is a maintenance release that includes several important bug fixes. For details, see the revision histories in the help files ("SoftwarePassport User Guide" and "Armadillo Help").

If you have questions about this release, please contact our support staff at support@siliconrealms.com.

Regards,
The Silicon Realms Toolworks Team