Aladdin Announces Release Of The HASP Pro Kit - A New Standard In Software
Protection Technology

March 1994 -- Tel-Aviv, IL - Software engineers at Aladdin Knowledge
Systems Ltd. have recently finished development of the HASP Pro Kit, a set
of advanced software utilities which enable software developers to achieve
a new standard of protection for their products.

Background 

The use of software protection has risen rapidly over the last few years,
due to increasing software piracy resulting in ever larger losses to the
software industry. Organizations such as the SPA and the BSA estimate
annual losses to the industry, as a result of the illegal us of the
software, at over $12 billion per year.

The most accepted form of software protection is the "protection key", a
hardware-based device that connects to a PC's parallel port. By linking
the protected software to the hardware device, the software developer
creates a copy of his software that will only run if the appropriate key
is connected to the computer.

Aladdin's HASP family of software protection devices is one of the most
popular and fastest-growing forms of hardware-based protection on the
market, with nearly a million units sold to thousands of software
developers in over 60 countries world-wide.

Cracking protected software 

Most protected software is cracked by hackers who enter the software code
and make changes to it, so that the software will no longer require the
protection key in order to activate. The HASP Pro Kit was developed by
Aladdin to prevent potential pirates from succeeding with this tactic.

How does it work? 

The HASP Pro Kit includes three software utilities that are meant to be
used in conjunction with the HASP software protection system. These
utilities enable the software protection system. These utilities enable
the software developer to interfere with a hacker trying to tamper with
the protected software:

- The first utility in the HPK enables the developer to implement an
embedded checksum in his code, allowing him to check if someone has
entered the code and tampered with it.

- In addition, the HPK gives the developer means to handle debugger
interrupts, thus interfering with hackers using debugger to enter the
code.

- Finally, the HPK enables the developer to camouflage communications
between the protected software and the protection key, thus confusing a
hacker trying to duplicate the communication between the protected
software and key.

Correct use of the HASP Pro Kit will allow the developer to greatly enhance
the level of security he can achieve from the HASP system. By customizing
his implementation of the protection system, the developer can achieve a
level of security previously unattainable with standard protection
systems.

Prices

The HASP Pro Kit is supplied free of charge to all HASP clients. Prices for
the various HASP keys start at $US 29.00 per unit, including all necessary
software and documentation.

Aladdin Software Security Inc
The Empire State Building
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 7204
New York, NY 10118, USA
(800) 223 4277,  212-564 5678,  FAX: 212 564 3377

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