Software Watermarking by Equation Reordering

Author

Shirali-Shahreza, Mohammad ; Shirali-Shahreza, Sajad

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Sharif Univ. of Technol., Tehran

fYear

2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Watermarking is the process of hiding information in a media and usually used to for copyright protection. In software watermarking, the information is added to the source code of program and can be extracted from compiled executable code. In this paper, a new software watermarking algorithm is proposed by equation reordering. In this method, the order of operands in an equation is changed according to the information we want to hide in a way that the result of the equation is unchanged. One of the main advantages of this method is that no code added to the program, so the size and speed of the program not changed.

Keywords

data encapsulation; source coding; watermarking; copyright protection; data hiding; equation reordering; software watermarking; source code; Art; Computer science; Copyright protection; Data encapsulation; Data mining; Equations; Java; Robustness; Software algorithms; Watermarking; Data Hiding; Equation; Software Watermarking; Source Code;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information and Communication Technologies: From Theory to Applications, 2008. ICTTA 2008. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Damascus

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1751-3

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1752-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICTTA.2008.4530357

Filename

4530357