From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: alt.security,comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Criminalizing unauthorized use Message-ID: Date: 30 Jun 92 02:32:35 GMT References: <16863@ulysses.att.com> <709468085snx@global.hacktic.nl> <1992Jun29.073941.24114@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1992Jun29.155234.21049@cl.cam.ac.uk> Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University In-reply-to: rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk's message of 29 Jun 92 15:52:34 GMT In article <1992Jun29.155234.21049@cl.cam.ac.uk> rja14@cl.cam.ac.uk (Ross Anderson) writes: The literature departments have done a lot of work on identifying authors by feature extraction from text. Maybe this is a technology the computer security community should plug in to. Interesting that you should mention that. A few months back, Stephen Weeber and I did a paper on this very topic. A short version of the paper has been accepted for presentation at the 15th National Computer Security Conference in October, and a more extended version has been submitted for consideration for publication in "Computers & Security." If you want to get a copy of the tech report version of the conference paper (short version), send your *surface postal* mail address to: maf@cs.purdue.edu and request a copy of "Software Forensics: Can We Track Code to its Authors?", by Spafford & Weeber, TR-92-010.