Hardware Key Licensing

in the licensespring platform, users can generate and customize licenses to require a hardware key licensespring supports using yubikey hardware keys hardware key licensing is an add on functionality in licensespring contact sales to enable it on your account this licenses can only be activated and used only when hardware key is plugged in to start using hardware key licensing you need to create hardware key required licenses provision hardware keys so that they can be used with licensespring service create hardware key required licenses issue license from licensespring configure license entitlements (max concurrent users, features, validity period etc ) ensure require hardware key is ticked configure license entitlements click next and create order create order provision hardware keys desktop application installer download and install the licensespring provisioning application for desktop from here https //ls provisioner s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com/index html we currently support x64 windows, but we will expand the support for the rest of the os environments this application will handle all the provisioning logic it will create certificate and private and public keys for yubikey dongle private key will be saved in the yubikey, and public key will be kept in licensespring and used for signature verification install the msvc redistributable https //aka ms/vs/17/release/vc redist x64 exe if it is not available already key certificate provisioning visit the hardware keys page in licensespring vendor platform ( licenses > hardware keys ) here you can see the list of all provisioned hardware keys for your account and informations like expiration date of the certificate, is the certificate revoked or active and if it is already used to activate a license if it is, button view license will be displayed in table row hardware keys to provision a new key certificate, click on provision the key certificate button and confirm the action inside the popup this will redirect you to the desktop application which you installed in previous step this application will start the provisioning process in the background if the process is successful, you should get a message window stating succeeded writing cert and new certificate will be saved in piv slot 9a otherwise, you will get a message window with some kind of error and writing the certificate will fail provisioning will overwrite the rsa2048 keypair in piv slot 9a once this is done, you can safely activate the license using the hardware key the hardware key must remain plugged in at all times while the software is running, otherwise the license will not function