Securing Java through software watermarking

  • Authors:
  • D. Curran;N. J. Hurley;M. Ó Cinnéide

  • Affiliations:
  • University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland;University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

  • Venue:
  • PPPJ '03 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Principles and practice of programming in Java
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

An important advantage of Java is its portability due to its use of bytecode. However the use of bytecode allows decompilation of Java programs to gain access to their source code. This makes it easier to pirate Java programs, infringing their copyright. This is a disadvantage of Java in comparison with programming languages that compile to native object code.Software watermarking is a relatively new approach to the problem of copyright protection that involves embedding ownership information in an executable program. Watermarking has been extensively researched in the context of multimedia and significant progress has been made toward the development of robust and secure techniques. In this paper we investigate a new software watermarking scheme. This is derived from signal detection theory which is used in multimedia watermarking.