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USENIX Annual Technical Conference (NO 98), 1998
Abstract
Deducing Similarities in Java Sources from Bytecodes
Brenda S. Baker, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies; Udi Manber, University of Arizona
Abstract
Several techniques for detecting similarities of Java programs
from bytecode files, without access to the source,
are introduced in this paper.
These techniques can be used to compare two files, to find
similarities among thousands of files, or
to compare one new file to an index of many old ones.
Experimental results indicate that these techniques can
be very effective.
Even changes of 30% to the source file will usually result in
bytecode that can be associated with the original.
Several applications are discussed.
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