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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2019.10.1.061

Design and Implementation of Method Generation based Watermarking Technique for Android Copyright Protection  

Park, Heewan (Department of Information Communication and Software, Halla University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.10, no.1, 2019 , pp. 61-69 More about this Journal
Abstract
As smartphones become widespread, numerous applications are developed and social issues related to software copyright are emerging. Software watermarking is digital watermarking technology applied to software and is a technology that can be used to recognize copyright owners. Generally, Java language is used to develop applications on the Android environment. The Java is an object-oriented language that supports method overloading and overriding. In this paper, we propose and implement a method generation based watermarking technique. As a result of evaluating the overhead due to the watermark, it was confirmed that the increase of the executable file size and the decrease of the execution speed are not large. Using the watermarking technique proposed in this paper, it is expected that copyright information can be verified when illegal copying is suspected or actual program is stolen, and piracy attempts will be prevented in advance.
Keywords
Software piracy; Copyright protection; Software watermark; Method overloading; Method overriding;
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