Software Watermarking for Java Program Based on Method Name Encoding

This paper proposes a software watermarking scheme for Java programs that is based on method name encoding. The feature of Java reflection is utilized to obtain the method names in a Java program. Watermark bits are divided into pieces according to the number of the method names. Each piece of the watermark bits is encoded with a method name, which hence achieves the embedding of the watermark. Based on the approach, an experiment system is developed to embed and extract watermark information in a practical Java program. The experimental test and performance analysis show that the proposed method is feasible and has good performances of security and robustness.

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