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A novel watermarking method for Java programs
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Abstract
Software piracy is one of the major concerns of programmers and software developers costing them huge amounts of financial losses every year. One of the programming languages used to develop software is Java. Although Java has some advantages over other languages, programs written using it are more vulnerable to software piracy than others. This is due to the fact that decompiling Java programs to their source codes is a relatively easy task. This paper proposed a novel method of watermarking Java programs. The suggested technique aimed to embed a watermark by means of appending a spurious If statement on to it. The proposed method was then implemented and tested in order to evaluate its security and resiliency against different types of attacks. The experimental results showed that the new method is more resilient to obfuscation and decompile-recompile attacks in comparison with the methods proposed by Genevieve Arboit in A Method for Watermarking Java Programs via Opaque Predicates [7] and Monden et al in A Practical Method for Watermarking Java Programs [5].
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