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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by joezydeco on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:22AM (#12121550)
HASP still exists, it's a USB key now:

https://sentinel.gemalto.com/software-monetization/sentinel-...

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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by webtechgal on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:35AM (#12121636)
Ah, so USB is what it is at now! I think one of the first movers in the HASP sector was an Israeli company, called Alladin Technologies or something - don't know if they're still around.
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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by reitanqild on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:40PM (#12123303)
Used HASP dongles as late as 2012 for some realtime camera software. Alladin seems familiar too but I cannot say for sure if it was that or another.

Suffice to say: for being Digital Restrictions Managements tools they worked amazingly well, we had far more issues with activating Windows downgrade licenses and least but not last individual RHEL licenses :-/

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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by vram22 on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:59AM (#12143928)
Yes, it was. I remember both the names Alladin and HASP from old computer mag ads (e.g. BYTE, PC Magazine).
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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by woliveirajr on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:57AM (#12121769)
Alladin makes usb tokens to store A3 certificates
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