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A Distributed Architecture for Remote Validation of Software Licenses Using USB/IP Protocol

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New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 2

Part of the book series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing ((AISC,volume 276))

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USB dongles have been used by a wide range of software manufacturers to store a copy-protected of their application’s license. The licenses validation procedure through USB dongles faces several concerns, as the risks of theft or losing dongle. Also, in scenarios where the number of dongles is reduced, users may have to wait for dongle access, which may lead to loss of productivity. In this paper we propose a client/server distributed architecture for remote software licenses validation, through USB/IP protocol. The proposed approach aims to take advantage of USB/IP for distributed access to a set of USB dongles physically connected to a remote USB server, over a TCP/IP network. We describe the deployment and enhancements made to an existing open source USB/IP implementation and also present the results obtained with this architecture in a real world scenario, for validation of computer forensics applications licenses that uses USB dongles.

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  1. School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Morro do Lena, Alto do Vieiro, 2411-901, Leiria, Portugal

    Mário J. Antunes, Albano Afonso & Filipe Mota Pinto

  2. Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems (CRACS), Faculty of Science, University of Porto, R Campo Alegre, 1021/1055, 4169-007, Porto, Portugal

    Mário J. Antunes

  3. Centro Algoritmi, University of Minho, Campus Azurém, 4800-058, Guimarães, Portugal

    Filipe Mota Pinto

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  1. Universidade de Coimbra & LIACC, Rio Tinto, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão de Informação, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. Department of Business Information Systems, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand

    Felix . B Tan

  4. Empirica GmbH, Bonn, Germany

    Karl . A Stroetmann

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Antunes, M.J., Afonso, A., Pinto, F.M. (2014). A Distributed Architecture for Remote Validation of Software Licenses Using USB/IP Protocol. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Tan, F., Stroetmann, K. (eds) New Perspectives in Information Systems and Technologies, Volume 2. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05948-8_26

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