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I recognized that the Quartus Prime Lite Edition is not able to generate encrypted pof files. The required options are not present in the Quartus Software. As I read here (https://forums.intel.com/s/question/0D50P00003yyKYcSAM/quartus-prime-lite-160-unable-to-generate-encrypted-pof-max10?language=en_US), generating encrypted pof files seems to require a licence file.
Is this also the case for just programming encrypted pof files or ekp files?
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Hi Michael,
Yes, to generate the .ekp file and encrypt the configuration data, the design security feature for Intel Quartus Prime Lite Edition need to enable and obtain a license file from Intel FPGA Technical Support.
Kindly refer below link for more information - Page 12
https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/an/an556.pdf
You can refer to previous forum thread below on the steps to request design security license in SSLC (Self Service Licensing Center)
Hope this could help you.
Thank you.
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Thank you for your support. I managed to request a license file.
By this means I was able to answer the initial question:
After generating an encrypted pof and ekp file, I removed the license file again and was able to program the files.
Thus, it is possible to program encrypted pof and ekp files without a license file in Quartus Prime Lite Edition Programmer.

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