An anti-piracy mechanism based on class separation and dynamic loading for android applications

Proceeding of the 2012 ACM Research in Applied Computation Symposium, RACS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 328-332

  Jeong, Youn Sik ^a   Moon, Jae Chan ^a   Kim, Dongjin ^a   Park, Yeong Ung ^a   Cho, Seong Je ^a   Park, Minkyu ^b  

^a Dankook University   (South Korea)

^b Konkuk University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Android app; Anti piracy; Class separation; Dynamic execution; Secure space

Indexed keywords

ANDROID APP; ANTI-PIRACY; CLASS SEPARATION; DYNAMIC EXECUTION; SECURE SPACE;

AUTHENTICATION; COMMERCE; CRIME; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DYNAMIC LOADS; ROBOTS; SEPARATION; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES;

LOADING;

EID: 84871624367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2401603.2401674     Document Type: Conference Paper

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