Press Release

December 12, 2001. Burlington, Ontario, Canada

Saffeine Research is pleased to announce a significant breakthrough in Java based software product licensing and code protection technology with their flagship product, 'Saffeine'. Available immediately, 'Saffeine' allows Software Product Development companies to provide solid protection for their products without embedding traditional license validation code.

Many commercial products contain code to check the validity of the product license. The Java platform is based on open standards that mean source code license logic can easily be revealed using Java decompilers, despite obfuscation tools and techniques. Therefore, this type of license can potentially be broken.

'Saffeine' eliminates this weakness and offers a superior solution by providing license management and code protection in one product.

Using the innovative 'Saffeine' run time environment; the power of Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) technology; and any third party JCE providers together provides sophisticated feature driven license management. Software vendors can develop products without the need for embedded license verification code.

'Saffeine' enables the creation of protected application storage, with different groups of classes or resources encrypted with different keys using strong, mathematically proven ciphers. The 'Saffeine' runtime environment can only load parts of the application if the customer has a license with the appropriate decryption keys. The 'Saffeine' license determines what features of the product may be used. It might be a limited, professional or full enterprise edition of the same product, all driven by 'Saffeine' protection. Software product vendors can now distribute the same version of their product for any customer purpose with confidence that the license cannot be altered.

With 'Saffeine', Software vendors can tighten asset and revenue management; simplify product distribution; and furthermore eliminate the need for developers to spend time designing more sophisticated licensing logic. 'Saffeine' represents an opportunity to recognize significant product development cost reductions as well as Intellectual Property protection.

For more information, including details on product packaging, our technical white paper and demos of 'Saffeine', please visit http://www.saffeine.com/.

Saffeine Research is a Software Development Company specializing in security solutions for the Java product development market.