Title
Software control and intellectual property protection in cyber-physical systems.
Abstract
Software control is a critical issue in cyber-physical systems (CPS); if the expected behavior of the software embedded in a single device of a CPS cannot be enforced then the behavior of the whole CPS may be in jeopardy. Thus, CPS stakeholders like having some level of control over the embedded software. Third-party demands to control the software, however, conflict with the intellectual property protection demanded by software developers, since some level of detail about the software at hand would have to be disclosed. In the present paper, we discuss the issue of controlling the software embedded in CPS devices and address the problem of how to achieve an increased level of software control without compromising the protection of intellectual property. We propose a two-party fingerprinting scheme that allows for attribution of responsibility in the case of intellectual property leaks. Our fingerprinting scheme is such that neither party may obtain an advantage over the other by misbehaving, misrepresenting or by prematurely aborting the protocol, therefore providing a fair means to resolve disputes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1186/s13635-016-0032-5
EURASIP J. Information Security
Keywords
Field
DocType
Watermark Scheme, Binary Number, Trusted Third Party, Intellectual Property Protection, Oblivious Transfer
Trusted third party,Avionics software,Embedded software,Computer science,Software security assurance,Computer security,Cyber-physical system,Software,Intellectual property,Software development
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
2016
1
1687-417X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
8
Authors
4