10. Software Similarity Analysis
So far, the algorithms you’ve seen, whether for obfuscation, tamperproofing, or watermarking, have had one thing in common: They’ve all been based on code transformations. That is, they take an unprotected program as input, apply one or more transformations on the code, and produce a more protected program as output. You can see this view of intellectual property protection reflected in the defense model in Section 2.2
86: Each of the protection primitives takes an unprotected universe as input and produces as output one in which a precious object is better protected than before.
In this chapter, you’ll see a very ...
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