Abstract: The increased popularity and use of smartphones, has lead to the increase in the number of social networking applications that leads to increase in threats to apps. Among threats to apps repackaging of apps is the common threat. To overcome this, we propose an mechanism that use watermark for the android apps. Watermark can used to determine ownership of code and prevent tampering of source code. We embed a picture based watermark into the app using some events. When we need to verify an originality of an app, we should verify the watermark of an app, for that we should first extract it from the app and check with that of the watermark of the original app that the author supplies. To do this, we need to run the app with the secret input that the author supplies. This is simple and efficient mechanism.
Keywords: Repackaged app, watermark, events.
Title: Smartapp: An Efficient and Effective App Based on Watermark for Smartphone
Author: Amitha Babu, Veena Jacob, Annie Chacko
International Journal of Computer Science and Information Technology Research
ISSN 2348-1196 (print), ISSN 2348-120X (online)
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