Compatible Digital Rights Management System on MS Windows Platform

Author

Wang, Yulin ; Shen, Yang

Author_Institution

Int. Sch. of Software, Wuhan Univ., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

19-20 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Digital rights management systems (DRMS) tend to solve two aspects about rights protection of the protected content for content provider: access control and usage control. Access control concerns about how users access the content, while usage control focuses on how users use it. In this paper, we introduce some key techniques and strategies to overcome the difficulties in implementation of a compatible and transparent-to-user DRMS on Windows NT platforms. These techniques, including hardware fingerprint encryption (HFE), Win32 API Hook and kernel function interception, have been carried out and applied in experiments based on Adobe Reader (PDF file) and the results shows that they have the potential to solve both of the problems mentioned above.

Keywords

authorisation; digital rights management; software packages; Adobe Reader; MS Windows platform; PDF file; Win32 API Hook; access control; compatible digital rights management system; content provider; hardware fingerprint encryption; kernel function interception; usage control; Access control; Authentication; Content management; Control systems; Cryptography; Fingerprint recognition; Hardware; Kernel; Licenses; Protection; DRM; Kernel Function Interception; Win32 API Hook; access control; usage control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Engineering and Computer Science, 2009. ICIECS 2009. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4994-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIECS.2009.5367148

Filename

5367148