ASSIGNMENT TOP SHEET Faculty of Creative Arts, Technologies & Science Department of Computer Science & Technology Student Ref. No 1030160 Unit Code CIS000-6 Unit Name Deadline for Submission(s) MSc Project 25th May 2012, by 4 pm Student's Surname Student's Forename Vyas Rohit Unit Leader's Name Supervisor’s Name Dr Fiaz Hussain Edmond Prakash Assignment Details: MSc Project – Final Thesis Report Instructions to Student: Please note: Work presented in an assessment must be the student's own. Plagiarism is where a student copies work from another source, published or unpublished (including the work of a fellow student) and fails to acknowledge the influence of another's work or to attribute quotes to the author. Plagiarism is an academic offence. 1 Work presented in an assessment must be your own. Plagiarism is where a student copies work from another source, published or unpublished (including the work of another student) and fails to acknowledge the influence of another’s work or to attribute quotes to the author. Plagiarism is an academic offence and the penalty can be serious. The University’s policies relating to Plagiarism can be found in the regulations at http://www.luton.ac.uk/livingandstudying/qa/documents. To detect possible plagiarism we may submit your work to the national plagiarism detection facility. This searches the Internet and an extensive database of reference material including other students’ work to identify. Once your work has been submitted to the detection service it will be stored electronically in a database and compared against work submitted from this and other universities. It will therefore be necessary to take electronic copies of your materials for transmission, storage and comparison purposes and for the operational back-up process. This material will be stored in this manner indefinitely. I have read the above information and I confirm that this work is my own and that it may be processed and stored in the manner described. Signature: Rohit Vyas Date: 24/05/2012 Extension deadline CAAS agrees that the assignment may be submitted ____ days after the deadline and should be marked without penalty. CAAS confirmation................................................................................................................... Please leave sufficient time to meet the given deadline and do not leave the handing-in of assignments to the last minute. You need to allow time for any system problems or other issues. 2 “A Rental Digital Rights Management framework which allows user to lend books and notes.” Thesis submitted at the University of Bedfordshire In partial fulfilment for the degree of Masters of Science In Computing and Entrepreneurship Rohit Vyas 1030160 Supervisor: Dr. Edmond Prakash Department of Computer Science and Technology January 2012 3 Abstract With new technologies come new challenges and opportunities. The upsurge in use of tablets and readers has led to increase in eBooks usage in recent years. But there lies some key differences in eBooks and print books which are often seen as a hurdle in the growth of eBook market. Firstly an eBook provider delivers eBooks with access control technologies known as Digital Rights Management which makes it difficult for the consumers to use eBooks as print Books. Secondly eBook renting is not widely used as print book renting and lastly users cannot lend eBooks as they do in case of print books. This project analyses the digital rights management schemes and provides a suitable framework which has an interoperable rental DRM framework which allows users to lend eBooks and notes. 4 Acknowledgements The dissertation could not have been completed without the guidance of my supervisor Dr. Edmond Prakash who generously took time to see my work and his valuable suggestions were very helpful. Secondly I would like to thank our academic librarian Chris Whitfield for appreciating my idea of the dissertation and Chris gave me contacts of people who could give me suggestions about the eBook industry. There were others who were directly or indirectly supported me in the project. I often received help from my friend vannie shravan in searching data and balram lath who gave me the confidence of working on the project. Last but not the least I would like to thank my family for supporting me throughout the project. 5 Dedication I dedicate my work to my father Gajraj Vyas and my mother Rekha Vyas. 6 Consent Form Author’s Name: - Rohit Vyas Thesis Title: - A Rental Digital Rights Management framework which allows user to lend books and notes Degree: - Master’s in Computing & Entrepreneurship I have read and understood the University’s regulations and procedures concerning the submission of my thesis. I understand that I have already signed a declaration agreeing to my dissertations being kept in the Learning Resources Centre (LRC) when I enrolled. We would like now, to extend this agreement by making the thesis available online. Further to this, I agree as follows: - That I am the author of the work. - That I have exercised reasonable care to ensure that the Work is original, and does not to the best of my knowledge break any UK law or infringe any third party’s copyright or other Intellectual Property Right. - The LRC and BREO administrators do not hold any obligation to take legal action on behalf of the Depositor (you), or other rights holders, in the event of breach of intellectual property rights, or any other right, in the material deposited. I hereby extend my consent to this thesis being included in the LRC as well as on BREO via online access. Author’s Signature: - Rohit Vyas Author’s Student Number: - 1030160 Date: - 25/05/2012 7 Table of Contents Abstract ................................................................................................................................................... 4 Chapter 1-Introduction .......................................................................................................................... 12 Problem Statement ............................................................................................................................ 13 Brief overview of the dissertation ..................................................................................................... 13 Importance of the dissertation ........................................................................................................... 14 Aims and Objectives of the Project ................................................................................................... 14 Chapter wise description of project .................................................................................................. 15 Methodologies and outcomes ............................................................................................................ 15 Chapter 2-Literature Review ................................................................................................................. 16 Copyright .......................................................................................................................................... 16 What is an eBook? ............................................................................................................................ 16 Major EBook formats ....................................................................................................................... 17 Unique Identifier of E-books ............................................................................................................ 18 Formats and OS of Major Devices .................................................................................................... 19 Digital Rights Management ........................................................................................................... 20 Architecture of DRM ........................................................................................................................ 23 Chapter 3- Comparison of existing DRM systems ............................................................................... 28 Existing DRM Systems:- .................................................................................................................. 28 Comparison of the Major DRM Systems .......................................................................................... 29 Related works:- ................................................................................................................................. 32 Chapter 4-Survey .................................................................................................................................. 33 Survey results .................................................................................................................................... 33 Questions and Responses .................................................................................................................. 34 Chapter 5-Implementation .................................................................................................................... 39 Proposed DRM framework ............................................................................................................... 39 Security Architecture of the System ................................................................................................. 39 Encryption of the Digital Content ..................................................................................................... 41 Broadcast Encryption