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

Cryptography

Jeff Herbert¹  Alan Litchfield² 

[1] Cybercraft, Auckland 0600, New Zealand;Service and Cloud Computing Research Lab, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland 1010, New Zealand;

关键词: software protection;    privacy;    innovation and technology;    web services modeling;    distributed objects;    services software;    cryptographic controls;    authentication;    data encryption;   

DOI  :  10.3390/cryptography2020010

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

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.

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