ReSOLV: Applying Cryptocurrency Blockchain Methods to Enable Global Cross-Platform Software License Validation

ReSOLV: Applying Cryptocurrency Blockchain Methods to Enable Global Cross-Platform Software License Validation

This paper presents a method for a decentralised peer-to-peer software license validation system using cryptocurrency blockchain technology to ameliorate software piracy, and to provide a mechanism for software developers to protect copyrighted works. Protecting software copyright has been an issue...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cryptography 2018-06, Vol.2 (2), p.10
Hauptverfasser: Litchfield, Alan, Herbert, Jeff
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
authentication
Blockchain
Central banks
Cloud computing
Copyright
Counterfeiting
cryptographic controls
Cryptography
data encryption
Developing countries
Digital currencies
Digital signatures
distributed objects
innovation and technology
Internet
LDCs
Licenses
Licensing
Methods
Personal computers
Piracy
privacy
services software
Software
Software development
software protection
web services modeling
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Zusammenfassung:This paper presents a method for a decentralised peer-to-peer software license validation system using cryptocurrency blockchain technology to ameliorate software piracy, and to provide a mechanism for software developers to protect copyrighted works. Protecting software copyright has been an issue since the late 1970s and software license validation has been a primary method employed in an attempt to minimise software piracy and protect software copyright. The method described creates an ecosystem in which the rights and privileges of participants are observed.
ISSN:2410-387X
2410-387X
DOI:10.3390/cryptography2020010