Alan B. Pearce wrote:
> My suggestion is to put the calculation engine that converts from the
> original data to the milling machine code into the dongle. There is no
> encryption/decryption involved. The dongle is part of the data path
> between the original clear data, and the clear data fed to the mill
> machine. The dongle does all the data manipulation, not the PC program.
>
> By having the dongle do the data manipulation the PC program becomes
> little more than a file server/transfer mechanism. The dongle HAS to be
> present for the data manipulation to take place, and cannot be
> bypassed. The PC program can be copied as many times as anyone likes,
> but when they disassemble it, all they will find is a data path that
> goes from the input file to the dongle. Then from the dongle to the
> output file. The output file could be a disk file or it could be
> straight to the mill.

So PCs are now just GUI engines, clickety-click servers, connections to the
world, and power supplies.  Applications are shipped with their own
processors since they are small and much cheaper than the IP in the
application.


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