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We present a software-based protection mechanism to prevent unauthorized copying of media documents during their presentation on a clients host. Our solution enforces the execution and continuous replacement of security mechanisms on the clients host. Each protection mechanism is only used for a short time interval before it is replaced. The short duration of the time interval prevents a successful analysis and attack of the mechanism. In this way we solve a shortcoming of current solutions. As those employ fixed protection mechanisms they will eventually be circumvented because attackers have virtually unlimited time to analyze them.
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Grimen, G., Mönch, C., Midtstraum, R. (2006). Software-Based Copy Protection for Temporal Media During Dissemination and Playback. In: Won, D.H., Kim, S. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2005. ICISC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3935. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11734727_29
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