LicenseScript – A Language and Framework for Calculating Licenses on Information over Constrained Domains

The project LicenseScript develops and demonstrates an integrated framework for analysis and design of secure information delivery systems. The contributions of this project are the demonstration of new analysis and design methods in at least two of the following concrete application areas: (1) Digital Rights Management (DRM), (2) wireless sensor networks (WSNs), (3) privacy protection. In this paper, we introduce the motivation, concepts and theory of LicenseScript. More importantly we speculate and discuss the practical applicability of LicenseScript in the particular areas of DRM and WSNs. In fact, LicenseScript is borne out of our initially disjoint research efforts in DRM and WSNs. It is exciting that at the convergence point of the security requirements of DRM and WSNs, we found our solution: LicenseScript. In other words, LicenseScript is borne out of real needs, rather than an academic whim that seek a unified framework. This paper is organized as follows. After the introduction in Section 1, we sketch the technical approach of LicenseScript in Section 2. Section 3 contains our discussion of the applicability of LicenseScript. Section 4 finishes off with our conclusion.