Talk on “Secure copy protection for mobile apps” by Nils T. Kannengiesser at the Android Security Symposium in Vienna, Austria, 9-11 September 2015
https://usmile.at/symposium/program/2015/kannengiesser
*** Abstract ***
Highly sophisticated copy protections exist in the desktop world for decades already and were most often used to prevent users from creating illegal copies of CDs or DVDs, while the applications were checking for a valid disc. Instead modern smartphones gather their apps from official markets by default and these apps are bound to a user’s account in theory. Of course, it’s possible to access the app files and redistribute them to other users and devices. While it might be no issue for free apps, developers of paid apps risk the loss of revenue. For this reason Google provided developers libraries for license verifications (LVL). Nevertheless the provided methods can be easily cracked and many developers seem to be unaware of the risks even nowadays. In this talk we want to present an approach for copy protection using secure elements on smartphones with Android.
*** Android Security Symposium ***
The Android Security Symposium was funded by the Christian Doppler Forschungsgesellschaft (CDG) from funds of the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy (BMWFW) and the Nationalstiftung für Forschung, Technologie und Entwicklung. The symposium was organized by the Josef Ressel Center u’smile at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria in Hagenberg in cooperation with SBA Research and the Institute of Networks and Security (INS) at Johannes Kepler University Linz.
This video is provided by the Josef Ressel Center for User-friedly Secure Mobile Environments (u’smile), a research group at the University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria.
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