Server side algorithms for WHLK (Watermark, Hardware Parameters and License Key) framework

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  Department of Computer Science & IT, University of Jammu, Jammu, J&K, India
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.868v1
Published
Accepted
Subject Areas
Algorithms and Analysis of Algorithms, Emerging Technologies, Security and Privacy, Programming Languages, Software Engineering
Keywords
Software watermarking, algorithms, server-side registration., software piracy
Copyright
© 2015 Gupta et al.
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Gupta N, Jamwal SS. 2015. Server side algorithms for WHLK (Watermark, Hardware Parameters and License Key) framework. PeerJ PrePrints 3:e868v1

Abstract

Software piracy is the most significant and burning issue in the age of the internet. Software piracy has been a direct threat for software vendors in terms of revenue and, therefore, a number of effective and efficient techniques have been employed for the detection and prevention of software piracy. One very important technique is software watermarking and using registration keys. This paper proposes the Server-side algorithms for registration and embedding the watermark into the software using the WHLK (Watermark, Hardware Parameters and License Key) approach. We have tested the algorithms and the analysis of the proposed algorithms proves that these registration algorithms are more reliable and efficient in comparison to other techniques.

Author Comment

This is a submission to PeerJ for review.