Software Protection Combined with Tamper-Proof Device
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Establishment of a practical software protection method is a major issue in software distribution. There are several approaches to the issue; however, no practical, secure method for mobile phone applications has been proposed. In this paper, we propose a new software protection scheme combined with a tamper-proof device (TPD) in order to achieve computational security against illegal analysis and copying of the target program. Our scheme achieves a reasonable level of security for encoding the data and variables in a program. The program on a mobile phone deals only with encoded data that is difficult to compromise, and the TPD plays a role of decoding execution results. We implemented the proposed scheme on a 3G mobile phone and a user identification module (UIM). An analysis and copying of the protected program impose exponential computation complexities under our attack model.
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- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E95-A No.1 pp.213-222
- Publication Date
- 2012/01/01
- Publicized
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1337
- DOI
- 10.1587/transfun.E95.A.213
- Type of Manuscript
- Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security)
- Category
- Software Protection
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Kazuhide FUKUSHIMA, Shinsaku KIYOMOTO, Yutaka MIYAKE, "Software Protection Combined with Tamper-Proof Device" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals,
vol. E95-A, no. 1, pp. 213-222, January 2012, doi: 10.1587/transfun.E95.A.213.
Abstract: Establishment of a practical software protection method is a major issue in software distribution. There are several approaches to the issue; however, no practical, secure method for mobile phone applications has been proposed. In this paper, we propose a new software protection scheme combined with a tamper-proof device (TPD) in order to achieve computational security against illegal analysis and copying of the target program. Our scheme achieves a reasonable level of security for encoding the data and variables in a program. The program on a mobile phone deals only with encoded data that is difficult to compromise, and the TPD plays a role of decoding execution results. We implemented the proposed scheme on a 3G mobile phone and a user identification module (UIM). An analysis and copying of the protected program impose exponential computation complexities under our attack model.
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