This paper describes a counter scheme that uses hash functions to count how many times the user is allowed to play protected content in a DRM-enabled player. The proposed basic sc...
One of the major issues raised by Digital Rights Management systems concerns the protection of the user’s privacy and anonymous consumption of content. However, most existing li...
A trusted monotonic counter is a valuable primitive that enables a wide variety of highly scalable offline and decentralized applications that would otherwise be prone to replay a...
Luis F. G. Sarmenta, Marten van Dijk, Charles W. O...
The security of content distribution is a critical issue that all the content providers have to treat seriously in order to guarantee their business. Emmanuel and Kankanhalli propo...
— We introduce a remote activation scheme that aims to protect integrated circuits (IC) intellectual property (IP) against piracy. Remote activation enables designers to lock eac...