A functional taxonomy for software watermarking

Authors:
Jasvir Nagra;Clark Thomborson;Christian Collberg
Affiliations:
The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand;The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand;University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Venue:
ACSC '02 Proceedings of the twenty-fifth Australasian conference on Computer science - Volume 4
Year:
2002

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Abstract

Despite the recent surge of interest in digital watermarking technology from the research community, we lack a comprehensive and precise terminology for software watermarking. In this paper, we attempt to fill that gap by giving distinctive names for the various protective functions served by software watermarks: Validation Mark, Licensing Mark, Authorship Mark and Fingerprinting Mark. We identify the desirable properties and specific vulnerabilities of each type of watermark, and we illustrate the utility of our terminology in a discussion of recent results in software watermarking.