LMM - A Common Component for Software License Management on Cloud

Shinsaku Kiyomoto, Andre Rein, Yuto Nakano, Carsten Rudolph, Yutaka Miyake

2013

Abstract

On a cloud environment, the platform that runs a program is not fixed, and there is a possibility that a program runs on several servers in a cloud environment. Transferability of the license information by a valid user should be allowed, even though general requirements for license management have to be satisfied. In this paper, we consider software license management models for cloud environments, and discuss security functions for building secure license management schemes. We show four license management models and analyze the security requirements for the models. Then, we design a common component referred to as the license management module (LMM), and explain the security functions required for the LMM. Furthermore, we discuss how to realize the security functions and evaluate their performance using a prototype implementation.

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Kiyomoto S., Rein A., Nakano Y., Rudolph C. and Miyake Y. (2013). LMM - A Common Component for Software License Management on Cloud . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013) ISBN 978-989-8565-73-0, pages 284-295. DOI: 10.5220/0004504502840295


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@conference{secrypt13,
author={Shinsaku Kiyomoto and Andre Rein and Yuto Nakano and Carsten Rudolph and Yutaka Miyake},
title={LMM - A Common Component for Software License Management on Cloud},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)},
year={2013},
pages={284-295},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004504502840295},
isbn={978-989-8565-73-0},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Cryptography - Volume 1: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2013)
TI - LMM - A Common Component for Software License Management on Cloud
SN - 978-989-8565-73-0
AU - Kiyomoto S.
AU - Rein A.
AU - Nakano Y.
AU - Rudolph C.
AU - Miyake Y.
PY - 2013
SP - 284
EP - 295
DO - 10.5220/0004504502840295