Design and implementation of a software protection system against software piracy by using cryptographic techniques

Abstract EN

Software Piracy becomes a major problem with the fast and vast growth in the use of the internet, and the new computer technologies is aided in increasing software piracy.

In this work, a software protection system against piracy is proposed.

This proposed system uses standard techniques to ease these difficulties such as Zero knowledge proof, Improved RSA, MD5, and Triple DES.

The proposed system use a proposed method to protect all the system files, and a proposed algorithm to generate software Copy Identification Number called (ICN) .

The implemented system where a software application hashes hardware serial numbers to generate a unique Installation ID.

This Installation ID is sent to the manufacturer to verify the authenticity of the application and to ensure that the product is not being used for multiple installations.