Protecting Android applications with steganography-based software watermarking

Joonhyouk Jang; Jinman Jung; Hyunho Ji; Jiman Hong; Dongkyun Kim; Soon Ki Jung

doi:10.1145/2480362.2480673

Protecting Android applications with steganography-based software watermarking

Joonhyouk Jang, Jinman Jung, Hyunho Ji, Jiman Hong, Dongkyun Kim, Soon Ki Jung

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a steganography-based software watermarking scheme to protect Android applications from software piracy. Considering the resource limitations in mobile devices, it is difficult to apply previous software watermarking schemes in mobile applications. To decrease the watermarking overhead in a watermarking scheme, such as a slowdown in the execution of applications after embedding a watermark, we proposed a different approach that applies steganography-based techniques in software watermarking. The proposed scheme embeds watermarks by reordering the sequence of instructions in the basic blocks in Dalvik executable files.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2013
Pages	1657-1658
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480673
State	Published - 2013
Event	28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2013 - Coimbra, Portugal Duration: 18 Mar 2013 → 22 Mar 2013

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Name	Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

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Conference	28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2013
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Coimbra
Period	18/03/13 → 22/03/13

Keywords

Android application
Software anti-piracy
Software watermarking
Steganography

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Jang, J, Jung, J, Ji, H, Hong, J, Kim, D & Jung, SK 2013, Protecting Android applications with steganography-based software watermarking. in 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2013. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, pp. 1657-1658, 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2013, Coimbra, Portugal, 18/03/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2480362.2480673

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