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Watermarking, tamper-proofing, and obfuscation - tools for software protection
Collberg, C.S.; Thomborson, C.;
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
Volume 28,
Issue 8,
Aug. 2002
Page(s):735
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746
Abstract:
We identify three types of attack on the intellectual property contained in software and three corresponding technical defenses. A defense against reverse engineering is obfuscation, a process that renders software unintelligible but still functional. A defense against software piracy is watermarking, a process that makes it possible to determine the origin of software. A defense against tampering is tamper-proofing, so that unauthorized modifications to software (for example, to remove a watermark) will result in nonfunctional code. We briefly survey the available technology for each type of defense.
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