On Software Protection via Function Hiding

Software piracy is a major economic problem: it leads to revenue losses, it favors big software houses that are less hurt by these losses and it prevents new software economy models where small enterprises can sell software on a per-usage basis. Proprietary algorithms are currently hard to protect, both at the technical as well as the legal level. In this paper we show how encrypted programs can be used to achieve protection of algorithms against disclosure. Moreover, using this approach we describe a protocol that ensures

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: IH
• Authors: Tomas Sander, Christian F. Tschudin
• Keywords: Big Software Houses, IH 1998, Information Management, Per-usage Basis, Software