Detecting Software Theft with API Call Sequence Sets
- WSR 2006
by
David Schuler, Valentin Dallmeier
Rainer Giminich, Volker Riediger, Andreas Winter (Ed.), Proceedings of the 8th Workshop Software Reengineering, May 2006. Proceedings also appeared in Softwaretechnik-Trends (26:2), published by the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI).
Abstract
Software birthmarking uses a set of unique characteristics every program has upon creation to justify ownership claims of thefted software. This paper presents a novel birthmarking technique based on the interaction of a program with the standard API. We have used this technique to successfully distinguish 4 different implementations of PNG image processing.
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{schuler-wsr-2006, title = "Detecting Software Theft with API Call Sequence Sets", author = "David Schuler and Valentin Dallmeier", year = "2006", month = may, booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th Workshop Software Reengineering", editors = "Rainer Giminich and Volker Riediger and Andreas Winter", location = "Bad Honnef, Germany", }