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A Survey of Software Watermarking

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005)

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In the Internet age, software is one of the core components for the operation of network and it penetrates almost all aspects of industry, commerce, and daily life. Since digital documents and objects can be duplicated and distributed easily and economically cheaply and software is also a type of digital objects, software security and piracy becomes a more and more important issue. In order to prevent software from piracy and unauthorized modification, various techniques have been developed. Among them is software watermarking which protects software through embedding some secret information into software as an identifier of the ownership of copyright for this software. This paper gives a brief overview of software watermarking. It describes the taxonomy, attack models, and algorithms of software watermarking.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Computer Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

    William Zhu & Clark Thomborson

  2. Systems and Industrial Engineering Department, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Fei-Yue Wang

  3. The Key Laboratory of Complex Systems and Intelligent Science, Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100080, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University,  

    Paul Kantor

  2. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, 08901-1071, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Gheorghe Muresan

  3. Artificial Solutions, Altonaer Poststraße 13b, 22767, Hamburg, Germany

    Fred Roberts

  4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng

  5. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

  6. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  7. College of Computing, Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph C. Merkle

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Zhu, W., Thomborson, C., Wang, FY. (2005). A Survey of Software Watermarking. In: Kantor, P., et al. Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_42

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