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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).

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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",
}

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