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Seminar on Network Security
Introduction of the topics and some material for the session ofContent protection
An analysis of a commercial software protection system
Tutor: Tommi Elo-
This is an advanced hands on topic. Student taking the topic should be
experienced with programming and debugging tools. A knowledge and
experience in assembler programming is of great value. An in-depth
experience in any environment will do, but most existing systems
run on Intel processors in one of the Windows operating systems. The
student should be familiar with the basic concepts of data security such
as encryption and code obfuscation.
- A working protection system
The work may consist of a comparision of two commercial software protection packages and analysis of their weaknesses. Another alternative is to do a case study based on one system, which can include attack scenarios or a successful attack.
A goal for the resulting paper is to explain the main techniques used in commercial software protection systems and to concentrate on analysing their weaknesses.
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