💡 Researches

:speaking_head: Overview # This paper presents a technique of dynamic software birthmarks to support efficient detection of software theft. A dynamic birthmark $f(p, I)$ is a set of unique and native characteristics of a program $p$, obtained by executing $p$ with a given input $I$. For a pair of software $p$ and $q$, if $f(p, I) = f(q, I)$ holds, $q$ is suspected as a copy of $p$. In this paper, we propose two kinds of dynamic birthmarks, EXESEQ and EXEFREQ which use execution order and frequency distribution of runtime API Calls. In the first experiment, we applied the proposed birthmarks to the same-purpose applications. As a result, it was shown that an application and its extended version have quite similar birthmarks, and that the applications that are independently implemented possess significantly different birthmarks. The second experiment showed that the proposed birthmarks achieve the strong resilience against the usage of different compilers and optimizations.

:speaking_head: Overview # To detect the theft of Java class files efficiently, we propose a concept of Java birthmarks, which are unique and native characteristics of every class file. For a pair of class files $p$ and $q$, if $q$ has the same birthmark as $p$’s, $q$ is suspected as a copy of $p$. Ideally, the birthmarks should satisfy the following properties: (a) preservation – the birthmarks should be preserved even if the original class file is tampered with, and (b) distinction – independent class files must be distinguished by completely different birthmarks. Taking (a) and (b) into account, we propose four types of birthmarks for Java class files.