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Tracking Traitors in Web Services via Blind Signatures

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International Joint Conference CISIS’12-ICEUTE´12-SOCO´12 Special Sessions

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 189))

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This paper presents a method and its implementation proposal, built on the blind signatures protocol, to trace and report users sharing a valid license illegally when accessing services provided through Internet (Web services, Streaming, etc). The method devised is able to identify the legitimate user from those users who are illegally accessing services with a shared key. This method is robust when detecting licenses built with no authorization. An enhancement of the protocol to identify the last usage of a certain license is also provided, allowing to detect a traitor when an unauthorized copy of a license is used.

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  1. Dpt. Arquitectura de Computadores, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain

    J. A. Álvarez-Bermejo

  2. Dpt. Álgebra y Análisis Matemático, Universidad de Almería, Almería, Spain

    J. A. López-Ramos

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Álvarez-Bermejo, J.A., López-Ramos, J.A. (2013). Tracking Traitors in Web Services via Blind Signatures. In: Herrero, Á., et al. International Joint Conference CISIS’12-ICEUTE´12-SOCO´12 Special Sessions. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 189. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33018-6_9

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