Graph Theoretic Software Watermarks: Implementation, Analysis, and Attacks

Christian Collberg; Andrew Huntwork; Edward Carter; Gregg Townsend

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-30114-1_14

Graph Theoretic Software Watermarks: Implementation, Analysis, and Attacks

Christian Collberg, Andrew Huntwork, Edward Carter, Gregg Townsend

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This paper presents an implementation of the novel watermarking method proposed by Venkatcsan, Vazirani, and Sinha in their recent paper A Graph Theoretic Approach to Software Watermarking. An executable program is marked by the addition of code for which the topology of the control-flow graph encodes a watermark. We discuss issues that were identified during construction of an actual implementation that operates on Java bytecode. We measure the size and time overhead of watermarking, and evaluate the algorithm against a variety of attacks.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	192-207
Number of pages	16
Journal	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	3200
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30114-1_14
State	Published - 2004

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Graph Theoretic Software Watermarks : Implementation, Analysis, and Attacks. / Collberg, Christian; Huntwork, Andrew; Carter, Edward; Townsend, Gregg.

In: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 3200, 2004, p. 192-207.

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