Authorship analysis: Identifying the author of a program

Computers and Security

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 233-257

  Krsul, Ivan ^a   Spafford, Eugene H ^a  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAM LISTINGS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTERS;

AUTHOR IDENTIFICATION;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 0030653064     PISSN: 01674048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4048(97)00005-9     Document Type: Article

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