A dongle emulator is a software program (or a combination of a driver and a virtual device) that entirely in software. To the Autodata application, an emulator looks and responds exactly like a genuine hardware key. No physical device is plugged into the USB port, yet the software believes one exists.
In theory, a perfect emulator allows unlimited access to Autodata. In practice, the landscape has changed dramatically.
The dumper uses a "dump converter" (e.g., Dmp2Mkey, HASP Emulator Tool) to convert the raw log into an emulator script. This script defines: