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Following these steps, you can access and download your Dasharo Entry
Subscription binaries without issues. If you encounter any problems, don't
hesitate to contact the Dasharo support team for further assistance.

## Does the Pro Package keys have any bearing on the hardware or BIOS?

The keys/credentials are used by the Dasharo Tools Suite only (a compact
Linux distributions developed for the purpose of simplifying Dasharo
firmware deployment and updates) to:

- determine your subscription type (heads or UEFI flavor of the firmware),
- determine your subscription validity (whether the subscription is
valid for the platform you try to install Dasharo on),
- download the firmware binaries to install or update Dasharo for the
platform (binaries are not unique, Dasharo Tools Suite downloads the
same binaries for every subscriber for given platform and subscription
type),
- locate HCL report for your specific platform, that was made
during initial deployment of Dasharo firmware in a scenario where you
would like to install back the original firmware (HCL reports contains a
dup of the previous firmware and is used to flash it back on the
platform). Not all platform support restoring the original firmware,
i.e. NovaCustom laptops are shipped only with Dasharo firmware and can't
be flashed with proprietary firmware using this method.

The keys/credentials have no other usages outside Dasharo Tools Suite
and have no impact on other components of the system.

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