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ACM Workshop On Digital Rights Management archive
Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Digital rights management table of contents

Washington DC, USA

SESSION: Software protection table of contents

Pages: 63 - 71

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-969-1

Authors

Bertrand Anckaert	Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Bjorn De Sutter	Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Koen De Bosschere	Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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SIGSAC: ACM Special Interest Group on Security, Audit, and Control
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Software piracy is a major concern for software providers, despite the many defense mechanisms that have been proposed to prevent it. This paper identifies the fundamental weaknesses of existing approaches, resulting from the static nature of defense and the impossibility to prevent the duplication of digital data. A new scheme is presented that enables a more dynamic nature of defense and makes it harder to create an additional, equally useful copy. Furthermore it enables a fine-grained control over the distributed software. Its strength is based on diversity: each installed copy is unique and updates are tailored to work for one installed copy only.

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