Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging

Discouraging Software Piracy Using Software Aging

Most people consider frequent software updates a nuisance. However, we show how this common phenomenon can be turned into a feature that protects against software piracy. We define a protocol for “drop-in” upgrades of software that renders a large class of software piracy more traceable. A novel fea...

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Hauptverfasser: Jakobsson, Markus, Reiter, Michael K.
Format: Buchkapitel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Applied sciences
Bulletin Board
Computer science
control theory
systems
Cryptography
Exact sciences and technology
Fair Exchange
Information, signal and communications theory
Legitimate User
Signal and communications theory
Software
Software Aging
Software engineering
Software Piracy
Telecommunications and information theory
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Zusammenfassung:Most people consider frequent software updates a nuisance. However, we show how this common phenomenon can be turned into a feature that protects against software piracy. We define a protocol for “drop-in” upgrades of software that renders a large class of software piracy more traceable. A novel feature of our approach is a software aging technique by which we force the updates to occur, or else the software becomes decreasingly useful over time.
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/3-540-47870-1_1