Frequently Asked Questions

We need to get an individual export license for customer, if you are situated outside the EU except of Australia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand, Switzerland, United States of America (for those the general export authorisation No EU001 is valid).

This depends. We need to get some paperwork from you, which might take some time - if e.g. we require an import license from your country, or may be fast, if its simply a declaration you sign. As soon as we have all documents, we can apply for the export license, which typically takes about 10 days to get.We cannot guarantee any schedule, however! Therefore: please do not wait until the last moment to order our toolkit! If you want to ship tomorrow and order today it is too late (and contradicts our evaluation license most likely).

Unfortunately this is not possible.

Unfortunately this is not possible.

We are open to negotiate special licensing terms with you. Please contact our sales team.

Typically a server runtime license is either needed when running a service on a server-type-installation, or when providing applets and comparable things on a website. So if you develop programs that are run on a client computer (applet) or on behalf of a client computer (servlet), and where the number of client computers cannot be determined in advance, you need a server-license.

This depends. Basically, you require one license for each server your software is installed on. The number of server licences you need depends on the number of server names that hosts your application and the number of processors of the physical machine. If your server application is accessible through one server name which runs on one physical machine having one processor, 1 server licence of IAIK is enough. If you have more server names or more processors, the number of server licences you need is the number of server names multiplied with the number of processors. The number of Java™ virtual machines does not matter. If you have only one developer working with one of our IAIK toolkits, one developer licence is enough. For developer licenses, only the number of developers count who work with the IAIK toolkit.

Active component licenses have been deprecated and replaced by server runtime licenses. We hope, this is less confusing.

Your runtime licenses are always linked with the corresponding developer license(s), they were purchased with. This means that in case you renew your licenses, you have to update your developer license, as well as your runtime licenses.

Yes, of course. The transfer of names from IAIK to Stiftung SIC has no influence on our licensing system.

Developer licenses:
These licenses allow you to develop applications based on our toolkits. You can choose between a limited number and unlimited developer licenses (depending on the number of developers within your company working with our toolkits). In case you purchase developer licenses at Stiftung SIC, you will then be able to download new product versions for one year. For further details about developer licenses, please have a look at our licence conditions.

Runtime licenses:
These licenses are non-exclusive, non-sublicensable licences to run the respective number of IAIK-Crypto software-based applications that have been developed by the Licensee under a developer licence. They are transferable to customers or other third parties, which means that if the customer or other third party acquires a certain number of licences for IAIK-Crypto Software-based applications from the licensee, the respective number of runtime licenses are transferred to the customer. If the licensee grants his customers an unlimited number of runtime licenses, the licensee also needs an unlimited runtime license from Stiftung SIC.