SecurityRatty: Security Strength Measurement for Dongle-Protected Software

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Security Strength Measurement for Dongle-Protected Software

2008-01-07 09:15:52 by Editor in IEEE Security and Privacy

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.