On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 11:52:00AM +0530, Kousik Maiti wrote: > Hi List, > I want to know if any open source packages available for Dongle? Details > about dongle [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle
Generally speaking, dongles are specific to the software they support. If you are running software that needs a dongle, the software should provide the necessary drivers, dependencies and/or documentation to support its dongle. For example, I recently had to contend with a piece of software that used a USB dongle. Fortunately, it was written to use the PC/SC daemon (package: pcscd). The daemon does the hard work of interrogating the cryptographic key on the USB dongle so the software didn't need to care too much. However, other types of dongle are available. Many years ago, I used a MIDI sequencer that needed a dongle plugged into the parallel port. The sequencer used its own, internal code to communicate with the dongle. In summary, it depends. It depends on what you want to do with the dongle (do you want to add dongle support to your own program? Do you want to use an existing program with a dongle (whether that program already supports dongles or not)?). Let us know more.
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