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Copyright Protection of Object-Oriented Software

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Information Security and Cryptology — ICISC 2001 (ICISC 2001)

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The work deals with copyright protection for software written in object-oriented language (such as C++ and Java). The model used allows to insert watermarks on three “orthogonal” levels. For the first level, watermarks are injected into objects. The second level watermarking is used to select proper variants of the source code. The third level uses transition function that can be used to generate copies with different functionalities. Generic watermarking schemes were presented and their security discussed.

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  1. Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland

    Jarek Pastuszak & Darek Michałek

  2. Department of Computing, Macquarie University, 2109, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Josef Pieprzyk

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  1. International Research center for Information Security (IRIS), Information and Communications University (ICU), 58-4, Hwaam-dong-Yusong-gu, 305-732, Daejeon, Korea

    Kwangjo Kim

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Pastuszak, J., Michałek, D., Pieprzyk, J. (2002). Copyright Protection of Object-Oriented Software. In: Kim, K. (eds) Information Security and Cryptology — ICISC 2001. ICISC 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2288. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45861-1_15

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