by Daniel Marschall, 30 April 2022
(The following information is not backed by any official information, but a result of a research and analysis of the soure code of Photoshop version 1.0.1, which is available at the Computer History Museum)
https://github.com/templeblock/ArchiveGit/blob/f9cf965cb7946faa91b64e95fbcf8ad47f438e8b/Clients/Monaco%20Systems/MonacoPrint/Mac_other/eve_stuff_2%263.cpp Source code of 1993 showing that EvE has something to do with Dongles.
https://github.com/search?q=EVEChallenge&type=code A lot of source-code files mentioning EVE methods.