seminar & Paper presentation document on 3 Way approach to bust cracking

Abstract

Piracy is one of the rampant issues that the virtual world we are living in i.e. the cyber world is facing. It is more so because whenever a new security measure is introduced, even the designer himself knows it is vulnerable and is bound to be cracked. In this paper we have tried to integrate and make use of different techniques and methods, some still under research to curb piracy to some extent. We call our approach as the 3 way mechanism to bust cracking. Steganography (Digital Watermarking), Encryption and Code Obfuscation have been used to achieve the same. There are two objectives of this paper. One is to prevent crackers from pirating the software and the second is to identify the culprits resorting to piracy. Both of them are discussed at length in this paper by demonstrating the cracking of software and the use of our 3 way approach to effectively stop the same.