Preventing Illegal Usage of Mobile Phone Software

Mobile software industry is suffering from the illegal usage of the software. PKI will not be a solution for small software distribution. We introduce a lightweight but safe method to prevent illegal usage of mobile phone software, by instrumentation on binary for device-identity check. The method is now being implemented on a presumable code on demand (COD) server for WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability). 1 Motivation These days, the market share of mobile software dramatically increases as the mobile phone gets more and more functionalities including multimedia processing, healthcheck, and authentication. Such tendency will be accelerated more rapidly, as ubiquitous dream comes true and the wireless devices play important roles. However, there exist some barriers to progress of mobile software industry. One of them is the diversity of hardware platforms which makes software distribution difficult. As a solution, in South Korea, the three major operators, TTA(Telec...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: COMPSAC
• Authors: Yun-Sam Kim, Eun-Sun Cho
• Keywords: COMPSAC 2005, Illegal Usage, Mobile Software Industry, Software Engineering, Wireless Internet Platform