TY - JOUR ID - TI - MULTIFACTOR AUTHENTICATION FOR SOFTWARE PROTECTION AU - Ali J. Abboud علي جاسم عبود PY - 2015 VL - 8 IS - 4 SP - 479 EP - 492 JO - DIYALA JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES مجلة ديالى للعلوم الهندسية SN - 19998716 26166909 AB - Software protection is a mechanism to make software systems more difficult (or impossible) to be accessed by attackers. Such mechanisms are gaining more importance nowadays for increasing number of attacks on the software systems in the large internet networked environment. Hence, in this paper, two schemes are proposed to achieve effective software protection tools. They are based on the use of multifactor authentication techniques and steganography algorithms. Multifactor authentication techniques are used to strength access policy to the software intellectual property while steganography algorithms are utilized to make protected software imperceptible to attackers. Finally, conducted experiments have shown that developed schemes are able to provide immunity against illegal accesses by invaders.

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