Security Strength Measurement for Dongle-Protected Software

  • Authors:
  • Ugo Piazzalunga;Paolo Salvaneschi;Francesco Balducci;Pablo Jacomuzzi;Cristiano Moroncelli

  • Affiliations:
  • Eutronsec Infosecurity;University of Bergamo;Turin Polytechnic;Turin Polytechnic;Turin Polytechnic

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Security and Privacy
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Many people consider dongles to be among the strongest forms of copy protection, but how much security do they actually offer? The model presented here aims to monetize the security strength of dongle-protected software by forecasting the amount of time a hypothetical attacker would take to break it.