(openPR) - Wibu-Systems competes against hackers in an international contest – Concludes at CeBIT 2007

Hacker vs. software protection: for the first time, all contestants registered for the Hacker’s Contest 2007 will receive the encrypted competition software with the appropriate software protection hardware CM-Stick/M for the USB interface. The German company Wibu-Systems AG, a leading manufacturer of hardware based protection solutions for software, documents, access and media, challenges the international hacker community with this unique competition including its lifelike conditions. The first contestant who can enable the protected demonstration software to run without a CM-Stick/M and describe the right solution will win the prize of 32,768 Euro.

The international competition will start on February 1, 0:00 CET and will end on March 14, 23:59 CET. The CodeMeter encrypted software takes center stage: one basis software and two moduls. The programs can be decrypted and used only with the suitable CM-Stick/M. The competition will be completed when the first contestant can enable the protected software to completely run without a connected CM-Stick/M and if the contestant has sent the hidden solution text to Wibu-Systems.

Everybody can take part in this competition if he/she has registered on www.hackers-contest.com, has accepted the participation conditions and has purchased one CM-Stick/M with a protective charge of 32 Euro. Each participant will benefit from the Hacker’s Contest even if he/she couldn’t solve the task: each contestant will receive the CM-Stick/M with 256 MByte of memory and also receive a personal "security suite” containing a password management application, a file encryption application and an access control application. Additionally, it is possible to store licenses for the use of software in the CM-Stick. Thus, the corresponding software isn’t bound to a certain computer but it can be used mobile on any computer.

The conclusion of the competition will take place at CeBIT during a press conference on March 15, 2007, 1 p.m., room 13 in the Convention Center by C.E.O. Oliver Winzenried. He will announce the anxiously awaited result and will go into both the technical details of the solution and the security strategies. Oliver Winzenried explains: "This is the chance for hackers to proove their qualifications. If they manage to break the protection we will use this awareness for improving CodeMeter continously. If not we will have impressively shown that it is impossible to hack the protection even with having a suitable CM-Stick. Of couse, I do belive in the superior strength of CodeMeter against hacker attacks. This challenge is unique in our sector: until now nobody else has dared to tackle such a challenge."

In the first three challenges with the protection solution WibuKey, Wibu-Systems did not have to disburse the prize. "If a contestant solves a part of the task we want to award this with up to 50 percent of the prize", adds Oliver Winzenried. "This will increase the attractivity of this competition noticeably."

Wibu-Systems AG was founded in 1989 by Oliver Winzenried and Marcellus Buchheit. The main focus is in the fields of Digital Rights Management, software protection, license management, document protection and access control. The company located in Karlsruhe has distributors all over the world and offices in Seattle, USA, as well as in Shanghai, China.

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