E3: Aladdin HASP
Posted at 03:27 am Tuesday May 10th 2005
[url=http://aladdin.com/]Aladdin[/url] has been sending out emails to E3 attendees all day. The product they're pitching is HASP. From [url=http://aladdin.com/hasp/HaspHL_v120.asp]their HASP website[/url] the best I can determine is that it's a hardware key or USB device that contains encrypted data that the program needs before it runs and/or a process running on the users system will decrypt critical program files using keys stored on the key. I didn't look into it too much but of course, one must wonder...who is Heather Hacker ([url=files/e3/2005/aladdin_hasp.jpg]see ad[/url]), but more importantly, how exactly does HASP work?