ALAN Technology Filed for International Patent Protection.

WARSAW, Poland -- A group of European programmers filed today for international patent protection of their innovative ALAN technology. The creators of ALAN technology assure that it can provide a barrier to the illegal copying of commercial contents, contributing to the limitation of the scale of piracy around the world.

ALAN technology is incredibly simple in its essence. It works by verifying the physical parameters of recorded data carriers Co CDs, DVDs, Flash memories, etc.

The key to the technology is encoding the data carrier contents on the basis of three parameters resulting from recording the data on a carrier: data size (D); total carrier size (R); and the free space remaining after the data have been recorded (W). The developers of the technology have just filed for international patent protection of ALAN technology.

"We believe that no technology can limit piracy unless an inseparable structure is created which binds the data carriers with the protected data. Technology development has already shown that any data protection methods in which data are viewed as a string of digital information were easily broken. Therefore we came to the conclusion that the only effective method is to combine data with particular, individual carriers, especially with the unique capacity of the carrier" said Mariusz Gawruk, the co-author of the technology.

About ALAN:

An original carrier is encrypted on the basis of the RDW parameters, and the decrypting algorithm is not found on the carrier, but on a dedicated read-write device, which both verifies the legality of the carrier (e.g. a CD) and enables backup of the CD which is only enabled for this device. This property is another characteristic of this technology.

The incredible flexibility of this technology is an important feature of ALAN. ALAN not only enables protection for data recorded on any carriers - software, music or films but can also be used in many different practical applications, protecting data from unauthorized operations, through access control to different devices (computers, telephones, cats), control of computer system integration, right up to document verification.