Implementation of digital watermarking technique to secure IPR of web application code

Abstract

Theft of software code is rapidly increasing with the growth of internet all over the world. That becomes the serious issue for the creator of the software code, as they invest their time and money to develop software code. Code for the Web based application can be accessed easily, as they are available as open source. These software codes can be tempered and can be misused any time. The protection of such web application code is essential. For the security of such codes from unauthorized accessibility, number of protection methods have been designed and developed. A model was proposed by Himanshu et al [4] for the protection of copyright of software code. In which few extra character stings were embedded in the encrypted original string. In this model concept of cryptography was implemented. This research paper is presented as the implementation procedure of the Digital Watermarking Technique to secure Intellectual Property Right of the web application code developed in ASP.NET using Visual C# programming language.