Software License Authentication: A Smart Card Approach

Software Products Licensing is a key factor in distribution of software products in IT markets, Digital Rights and Copy protection laws are days old and need an updating. software piracy is an illegal usage of software license management, this has affected very badly to software producers on an high time and great potential is lost with it, many researchers have provided their solution on unique front, we in these paper used an smart card based solution for license key management for any software product which can be authenticated on distributed networks, which can reduce to a great exert of software piracy.