CyberKey Solutions fka CKYS

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geo, maybe I can help with how those Cyberkey drives are different. My understanding is all of them, including the new 16Gb, look just like anyone else's drive when you plug it in. You'll see the familiar icon (i.e., removable drive E:) show up in 'My computer' just like all usb drives. And just like many other usb suppliers you can install rudimentary locking software so that some selectable fraction of the drive is off limits without a password. This is not the 128 bit encryption you may of heard about, in fact it is only a 4 digit password. But what is different is there is some additional IC in there that can run application specific firmware. This is the key to all the applications envisioned in the different business sectors. It allows you to do stuff like write a program to communicate with the drive and enter into a hand-shake where a code that uniquely identifies that particular drive is returned. This for instance would be invaluable if the content on the drive were labeled with that code. Its a form of DRM, the content won't do what you want (i.e. the game won't run) if you can't get that serial number from the drive. It prevents you from copying the game. This is only one example of what you might do with firmware running on that internal IC.

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