A Static Java Birthmark Based on Operand Stack Behaviors

Author

Park, Heewan ; Lim, Hyun-Il ; Choi, Seokwoo ; Han, Taisook

Author_Institution

Div. of Comput. Sci., Korea Adv. Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Daejeon

fYear

2008

fDate

24-26 April 2008

Firstpage

133

Lastpage

136

Abstract

A software birthmark means the inherent characteristics of a program that can be used to identify the program. By means of comparing the birthmarks of programs, the fact of the software theft can be detected. In this paper, a static Java birthmark is proposed by utilizing a set of behaviors as the characteristics of the Java applications. A behavior denotes a sequence of byte codes which share their operands through the operand stack. We evaluate the proposed birthmark with respect to two properties required for birthmark, i.e., credibility and resilience. The empirical results show that the proposed birthmark is credible and resilient to program transformation. Therefore, the proposed birthmark can be used for identifying the software´s originality.

Keywords

Java; computer crime; program diagnostics; byte code sequence; credibility-resilience property; operand stack behavior; program transformation; software theft; static Java birthmark; Application software; Computer industry; Computer science; Detectors; Information security; Intellectual property; Internet; Java; Protection; Resilience; Java Birthmark; Software Protection; Static Birthmark;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Security and Assurance, 2008. ISA 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3126-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISA.2008.15

Filename

4511549