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Rhode Island Inventors Develop Mobile Code Protection Class Loader

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- Chenghui Luo of Warwick, R.I., and Jian Zhao of Rumford, R.I., have developed a technique for protecting mobile code.

An abstract of the invention, released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, said: "Techniques for using a class loader to protect mobile code against a malicious host. The techniques include using the class loader to extend a class used by the mobile code such that a method is added to the code which authenticates the mobile code. When executed, the method provides a dynamic watermark that authenticates the code. The method may be encrypted until it is added to the code. One such method uses a static watermark in the code to determine ...

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