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The Next Generation of Secure Image Technology
Since 1998 ArtistScope's image encryption technology has provided the only
feasible solution for displaying secure images on web pages. By utilizing Java
security applets to cater for decrypt images in memory as the web page loads,
ArtistScope’s image encryption for the web has been unsurpassed. In fact even
today there are no comparable solutions.
As the web browser makers try to tighten security in the "bells and whistles"
features that they originally introduced to attract their users, and especially
in the case of Microsoft paying out on Sun because they sued them for trying to
brand Java technology as their own, Java is no longer bundled with Windows. Now
everyone has to download and install Java separately and suffer delays every
time they first run Java.
So for Windows users ArtistScope image encryption can now be delivered by
ActiveX. ActiveX is native to Windows and the Internet Explorer web browser so
there are no extra resources required and no delay in load times. ArtistScope’s
new ActiveX image viewer is fully compatible with images previously encrypted
for the Java security applets and in fact are more efficient because there is
no delay to initialize Java and because the decryption is managed in memory the
images cannot be found in cache at all.
One of the main benefits of using encrypted images is that the images stored on
the client’s web site are completely secure. They are safe from company staff
and also safe from persons who may have access to the web server such as
hosting staff and web masters.
The potential retrieval of media from the web browser’s cache has always been a
concern. In earlier day browsers cached files were not that accessible and even
when located could not be opened directly. But later day browsers have changed
that and as usual made securing such files even more difficult by exposing them
without any limitations.
The images encrypted by ArtistScope software have always been secure regardless
of how accessible the cache may be because they are still in their encrypted
form and cannot be displayed except from the java security applet which of
course is domain locked to the client’s web site. And now it is even much more
secure because the encrypted images downloaded and decrypted by the new ActiveX
viewer cannot be found anywhere because the whole decryption and display
process remains in the end user’s computer memory.
CopySafe Web
CopySafe Web has been the most secure copy
protection solution for use on web sites for the last 10 years and now it has
lightning fast delivery plus more:
- Lightning fast decryption on load to the web page
- Printscreen and screen capture protection for all Windows web browsers
- Page reload and roaming is delivered instantly from
cache
- Encrypted images can only be viewed visiting
your web page online
- Encrypted images stored in cache and Temporary Internet
files are secure
- Image decryption is directly controlled by the CopySafe plugin
and more secure
- Variable image display styles available including
slideshow and watermarking
- Command line operation available for single or batch
processing by folder selection
- Soon available in
ArtistScope DRM for rights
assignment of online web pages
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Command line operation
CopySafe Web version 4.0 can now be operated in command line mode, run from
the console, from .bat files or by using a DLL interface for online operation.
Convert single images or batch process by selected folder. Secure Image Pro
command line can be interfaced from web pages for online gallery uploads and
management on any type of web server including Windows, Mac and Linux.
Watermarking
Watermarking can be applied selectively to Windows, Mac or Linux computer
users. The watermark option is available as an option for all display styles
including slideshow.
Compatibility
Both the CopySafe Web version 4.0 ActiveX and the security applet are
compatible with images already converted by previous versions.
Upgrades
CopySafe Web version 4.0 is a major upgrade and requires registration
however current users registered before January 2008 are eligible to upgrade at
discount as an "extra licence". Licences registered since January 2008 are
eligible for a free upgrade.
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