Microsoft Solution for Protecting Software from Piracy and License Non-Compliance

Software Vulnerability Caused by Reverse Engineering Software piracy is made possible partly because the .NET platform, though very powerful, does enable reverse engineering. This refers to the process of discovering how a particular application works, by analyzing its structure and function. Reverse engineering is made possible by the fact that .NET languages such as C# and VB.NET compile down to Microsoft Intermediate Language (MSIL), the .NET equivalent of machine code. The problem with MSIL is that it is very well known, and carries a great deal of the structure of the high level languages, thus exposing valuable proprietary information.

Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services Solution To combat software piracy through reverse engineering and license non-compliance, Microsoft has come up with a solution that revolves around the concept of permutation - rearranging a set of items. First, it is necessary to identify the crucial and vulnerable pieces of the MSIL, such as the core intellectual property algorithms, items enabling key functionality in the application, and code that includes passwords. Then, with the application of the Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services (SLPS) solution, these crucial items are transferred away from the easily reversed engineered MSIL, and into the secure virtual machine language (SVML), which is not easily reverse engineered. SVML is encrypted in a way that is unique to each client, and this also helps in monitoring and enforcing license compliance.

Products The Microsoft SLPS solution consists of two closely related products: The first is the Microsoft Permutation Package. This is the .NET code protection technology that provides the code protector with a private transformation algorithm, and holds the vendor-specific digital signature for secure licensing. The second product is the code protector, which enables clients to apply the protection to the .NET assemblies. Code protector can be downloaded free of charge.

Further Information For further information about the Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services offerings, visit the Microsoft website.

Article By Ariel Rosen

Keywords: Microsoft SLPS, Microsoft Software Licensing and Protection Services, SVML, SLPS Code Protection, Microsoft SLPS products, Software Non-Compliance, P

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