DEVELOPMENT OF SOFTWARE PROTECTION TOOL.

Title: Development of Software Protection Tool.

Chief Investigator: Prof. B.S. Sohi

Co-Investigator: Prof. Renu Vig

Drawing Body: Department of Information Technology (DIT), Govt. of India

Aim and Scope of the Project:

The fundamental of software protection is to retain the integrity of software licensing in which only the licensee or authorized user is allowed to use the software. Software license agreements and the use of serial numbers are widely deployed. These approaches only provide weak enforcement. These software protection approaches cananot effectiviely protect software against piracy. Under this project, hardware and software assisted protection techniques will be developed. The methods developed will be based on the following technologies.

Software for encryption.Hardware for decryption.Hardware and software based tool will provide protection from Malicious attackPiracyUnauthorized modifications