This paper presents a new theft-deterrent system called WANTED (WANTED stands for Web-attached Network-device Theft Explorer and Deterrent.). The system relies on credits and blacklists, with each protected device periodically requesting new credit in order to continue operating. The main features of WANTED are resistance to attacks, guaranteed privacy, and scalability. The client part is a hybrid system composed of an untrusted software component and a trusted hardware component. This offers maximum flexibility, while keeping the hardware requirements low.
By: Patrick Droz, Ceki Gulcu and Robert Haas
Published in: Proceedings 9th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks "ICCCN 2000," edited by T. Engbersen and E.K. Park. , Piscataway, IEEE, p.374-9 in 2000
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