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2000
Conference Paper
Titel
Towards a Practical Secure Framework for Mobile Code Commerce
Abstract
IPR (Intellectual Property Right) protection is one of the key elements to be considered in the development of mobile agents because the moving nature of this kind of software and the power of servers. The absence of protection shall carry with the risk of piracy, to such a point that the economy of the sector would be weakened, even destroyed. In complement to the legal provisions (anti-piracy laws), protection is one of the absolute elements in the development of these new markets. In the course of ESPRIT project FILIGRANE (FlexIbLe IPR for Software AGent ReliANcE) we developed an integrated Web architecture and associated security framework and protocol for trading of mobile code in Internet. In this paper we focus mostly on the watermarking and obfuscation technology used in FILIGRANE framework.
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