Why You Can Trust Our Software

Business

We have been selling software commercially since 2005, with 3 products: PerfectTablePlan, Hyper Plan and Easy Data Transform. Our customers include corporations, governments and the military.

Technology

Our software is written in C++ by us and compiled into native applications that run on Windows and Mac. The software runs on your local computer, not ‘in the cloud’.

Windows toolchain

  • Compiler: Visual Studio C++ compiler and libraries from Microsoft.
  • Framework: Qt from the Qt Group.
  • Installer: Inno Setup from jrsoftware.org.

Mac toolchain

  • Compiler: XCode C++ compiler and libraries from Apple.
  • Framework: Qt from the Qt Group.

Source code

Our source code is stored securely on our network. Only company employees have access to our source code. We do not use outsourced software development.

Product data storage

Our software stores it’s data locally on your harddisk. No-one (including us) can access this data, unless they have access to files on your harddisk.

Digital signature

Our software is digitally signed by us (Oryx Digital Ltd) to show that we created it. If the digital signature is present, then you can be sure it hasn’t been tampered with. If you can’t see a digital signature, then please contact us before installing.

Windows digital signature

The Windows installer and executable are signed using a digital certificate issued by Sectigo. You can check the signature by checking the verified publisher:

Windows digital certificate

Or by right-clicking on the installer file, selecting Properties and looking at the Digital Signatures tab.

Windows digital certificate

Mac digital signature

The Mac .app is signed using a digital certificate issue by Apple. You can check the signature by running in the terminal (changing the .app file name as appropriate):

codesign -dv --verbose=4 /Applications/PerfectTablePlan.app

You should see somewhere in the output:

Authority=Developer ID Application: Oryx Digital Ltd (C69HU3VR25)
Authority=Developer ID Certification Authority
Authority=Apple Root CA

Malware checks

All our software is checked with multiple anti-virus/malware scanners using the virustotal.com service before release.

The Mac .app is also notarized by Apple. You can check the notarization by running in the terminal (changing the .app file name as appropriate):

spctl -a -v /Applications/PerfectTablePlan.app


You should see in the output:

Applications/PerfectTablePlan.app: accepted
source=Notarized Developer ID

Communication

Our software checks with an XML page on our server to see if a new version of the software is available. By default it does this once per week. But you can set it to never check in the Preferences window.

The software does not automatically update.

The software does not upload plan data to 'the cloud' (unless you use the export to web feature, see below).

Export to web

If you use the optional export to web feature in PerfectTablePlan, then your plan data will be uploaded to our server with a unique and randomized web address (URL). Anyone who knows this web address can access the web version of the plan.

Log4j

Our software does not use Java or the Log4j library and therefore has no exposure to Log4j exploits.