Design and evaluation of birthmarks for detecting theft of Java programs

Haruaki Tamada; Masahide Nakamura; Akito Monden; Kenichi Matsumoto

Design and evaluation of birthmarks for detecting theft of Java programs

Haruaki Tamada, Masahide Nakamura, Akito Monden, Kenichi Matsumoto

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Abstract

To detect theft of Java class files efficiently, we have so far proposed a concept of Java birthmarks. Since the birthmarks are unique and native characteristics of every class file, a class file with the same birthmark of another can be easily suspected as a copy.
However, performance and tolerance of the birthmarks against sophisticated attacks had not been evaluated well. To clarify these issues, this
paper conducts two experiments. In the first experiment, we demonstrate that the proposed birthmarks successfully distinguish non-copied files in practical Java application (97.8005%). The second experiment shows that the proposed
birthmarks are quite tolerant of attacks with automatic program optimizers/obfuscators (93.3876%).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering
Pages	569
Number of pages	575
Publication status	Published - Feb 2004
Externally published	Yes
Event	IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering (IASTED SE2004) - Innsbruck, Austria Duration: Feb 17 2004 → Oct 19 2004

Conference

Conference	IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering (IASTED SE2004)
Country	Austria
City	Innsbruck
Period	2/17/04 → 10/19/04

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Science(all)

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