Detecting Software Theft with API Call Sequence Sets.
David Schüler, Valentin Dallmeier · 2006
Software birthmarking uses a set of unique characteristics every program has upon creation to justify ownership claims of thefted software. This paper presents a novel birthmarking technique based on the interaction of a program with the standard API. We have used this technique to succesfully distinguish 4 different implementations of PNG image processing. 1