Project Settings
The “General Settings” tab in the navigation tree on the left side allows you to edit settings for the selected project.
You can change and edit the project name and description, as well as lock the project (use it in read-only mode). This prevents changes to the project. You can always unlock the project for editing, but keep in mind that your previously formatted CRYPTO-BOX units (which may have been already delivered to end-users) might not work properly with the application(s) protected with the modified project.
In the lower part of the Window, you need to select the CRYPTO-BOX hardware profile for the project.
This hardware profile contains the access codes to be used by the protected application to access the CRYPTO‑BOX.
Every MARX customer will get his customer specific TRX file. Select the "cbu_demo" profile for the CRYPTO-BOX that was shipped with the Evaluation Kit, or click on "Import profile" to import the profile from the CDROM you received along with your customer specific CRYPTO‑BOX units from MARX.
INFO:
| See the “TRX File” White Paper at www.marx.com/support-manuals for details on hardware profile handling. |
You may also select the exact CRYPTO-BOX type and/or its memory size, but this is optional: if you leave default settings, SxAF will detect the attached CRYPTO-BOX automatically.
When creating or editing a network project, you can specify Network Server settings (IP address, port); by default, the IP address is “127.0.0.1” (this is local IP address of your computer), the port is 8765. You can also submit a computer name (e.g. “PC-517”) instead of an IP address. If the server can not be found at the specified IP address, the protected application will open a dialog asking for server settings.
The button “AES Encryption” allows you to define values for the AES/Rijndael Private Key and the Initialization Vector used to encrypt the application.
INFO:
| All protected applications will be compressed and encrypted by default. For application encryption, the AES Private Key of the CRYPTO-BOX is used. All protected applications in one project will share the same AES key value for their encryption. With the CRYPTO-BOX SC it is possible to have separate AES keys for every application/ set of applications. Check the "Use CBU SC AES encryption" field to do so. For more information on CRYPTO-BOX SC features, please refer to www.marx.com/products. |
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Every AutoCrypt project may have its individual AES key.
However, this means: if a CRYPTO-BOX was formatted for Project #1, it cannot be used with an application which was protected with project #2 if the projects have different AES key values (which is default setting). So if you need different (AutoCrypt) projects on one CRYPTO-BOX, you have to set the AES encryption key to the same values for all these projects.
Alternatively, multiple applications can be added to the same project - then they will share the same key value (see Adding Application).
An exception is the CRYPTO-BOX SC which allows to define an individual AES key for every project.