Informed Recognition in Software Watermarking

Abstract

Abstract. Software watermarking is a technique to protect programs from piracy through embedding secret information into the programs. As software unauthorized use and modification are ubiquitous in the world, progresses in software watermarking will certainly benefit software research and industry. In this paper, we study one of core concepts in this area -informed recognition. To recognize a watermark in a software is to judge the existence of such a watermark in the corresponding software code.