Secure Copy Protection for Mobile Apps

In the last few years there has been an increase in mobile app development especially on Android. Unfortunately, the rising app sales have been followed by an increasing number of piracies. Therefore Google has been forced to release the license verification library (LVL) to provide developers with basic copy protection for their apps. Not surprisingly, this copy protection was immediately cracked. Although Google tried to fix these problems by providing subsequent updates, we believe that there is still space for major improvements and that new and more secure solutions are possible for copy protection. In this paper we discuss the usage of secure elements to bind apps to their owners. It is part of our ongoing research and in an early stage.     «

In the last few years there has been an increase in mobile app development especially on Android. Unfortunately, the rising app sales have been followed by an increasing number of piracies. Therefore Google has been forced to release the license verification library (LVL) to provide developers with basic copy protection for their apps. Not surprisingly, this copy protection was immediately cracked. Although Google tried to fix these problems by providing subsequent updates, we believe that ther...     »