Obfuscation of design intent in object-oriented applications

DRM 2003: Proceedings of the Third ACM Workshop on Digital Rights Management

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 142-153

  Sosonkin, Mikhail ^a   Naumovich, Gleb ^a   Memon, Nasir ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Code Generation; Refactoring; Software Obfuscation

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); DIGITAL WATERMARKING; HTML; INTERNET; OPTIMIZATION; SECURITY OF DATA; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

CODE GENERATION; GRID COMPUTING; REFACTORING; SOFTWARE OBFUSCATION;

OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING;

EID: 18844377176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/947380.947399     Document Type: Conference Paper

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