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Software digital rights management is a pressing need for the software development industry which remains, as no practical solutions have been acclamaimed succesful by the industry. We introduce a novel software-protection method, fully implemented with today's technologies, that provides trait...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2010-06
Main Authors: Bendersky, Diego, Futoransky, Ariel, Notarfrancesco, Luciano, Sarraute, Carlos, Waissbein, Ariel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Algorithms
Copy protection
Cost analysis
Cryptography
Encryption
Industrial development
Software
Software development
Software development tools
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Summary:Software digital rights management is a pressing need for the software development industry which remains, as no practical solutions have been acclamaimed succesful by the industry. We introduce a novel software-protection method, fully implemented with today's technologies, that provides traitor tracing and license enforcement and requires no additional hardware nor inter-connectivity. Our work benefits from the use of secure triggers, a cryptographic primitive that is secure assuming the existence of an ind-cpa secure block cipher. Using our framework, developers may insert license checks and fingerprints, and obfuscate the code using secure triggers. As a result, this rises the cost that software analysis tools have detect and modify protection mechanisms. Thus rising the complexity of cracking this system.
ISSN:2331-8422