Name: Secure Machine Licensing Platform
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Case 1

Situation: Industrial machines and Linux-based appliances are often deployed on customer sites, factories, remote locations or sensitive environments. Once deployed, the vendor may lose direct control over how the machine is activated, used, renewed or duplicated.
Solution: Makehitec Secure Machine Licensing Platform binds license usage to a trusted machine identity using TPM 2.0 or equivalent hardware-backed mechanisms, PKI, X.509 certificates, Secure Boot, TLS/mTLS and cryptographically protected license tokens.
Outcome: The machine can only operate according to its authorized license state. The vendor gains stronger control over activation, renewal, restriction and lifecycle management while reducing unauthorized usage and license misuse.

Case 2

Situation: Some machines operate in disconnected, restricted or highly sensitive environments where permanent internet access is not possible or not allowed. Traditional online-only licensing models are not suitable for these operational constraints.
Solution: The platform supports offline license renewal using signed and encrypted license data based on JOSE standards such as JWS, JWE, JWK and JWT. Licenses can be exchanged, verified and installed without requiring continuous connectivity.
Outcome: Companies can protect and renew licenses even in offline or intermittent-connectivity environments, while preserving confidentiality, integrity, non-repudiation and strong operational control.

Case 3

Situation: Edge devices, embedded Linux platforms and secure appliances often run valuable software close to the field. Without strong activation and identity controls, these devices can be copied, misused or operated outside contractual limits.
Solution: Makehitec provides secure enrollment, machine identity verification, local license enforcement and centralized license governance. Each device can prove its identity, request a license, install it securely and operate only when authorized.
Outcome: Organizations can deploy edge devices and appliances with a trusted activation process, reducing fraud, protecting intellectual property and improving control over distributed fleets.

Case 4

Situation: Before a license can be trusted, the machine itself must be trusted. Software-only identifiers are weak and can be copied, modified or reused on unauthorized systems.
Solution: The platform enables strong machine enrollment using TPM 2.0, CSR generation, PKI workflows and X.509 certificates. The machine identity can be linked to hardware-backed trust elements and used throughout the licensing lifecycle.
Outcome: Each machine receives a reliable and verifiable identity. This creates a strong foundation for license generation, renewal, monitoring, restriction and secure machine lifecycle management.

Case 5

Situation: Critical Linux machines may require hardened configurations such as Secure Boot, read-only RootFS, SELinux, sandboxed components and controlled access to sensitive local data.
Solution: Makehitec integrates license management with secure Linux architecture principles, including sandboxed license clients, secure storage, strong access control, TLS/mTLS communication, local verification and controlled license state transitions.
Outcome: The licensing mechanism becomes part of the trusted system architecture instead of being a fragile add-on. This improves security, maintainability and resistance against tampering.

Case 6

Situation: Companies operating many machines need visibility over license status, renewal history, machine identity, contract state and operational lifecycle. Managing this manually becomes costly and unreliable.
Solution: The platform centralizes license governance through license servers, enrollment services, monitoring capabilities and machine-side agents. Complex business logic remains server-side, while the machine-side implementation stays lightweight and generic.
Outcome: Operations teams gain better control over machine fleets, license renewal, compliance, monitoring and restriction policies, while reducing manual operations and implementation complexity.

Secure Machine Licensing Platform

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