Confirmation of authority on source program codes using text steganography in Javascript
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Authorship verification or plagiarism detection tasks have become widespread with the advent of generative artificial intelligence. Authorship of software codes occupies a prominent place in such tasks. In addition to protecting intellectual property, obstacles arise in educational and scientific activities, and expert organizations are looking for new methods of certifying or disproving the originality of works. The purpose of this work is to develop, substantiate and test the methodology for introducing copyright labels into software codes using steganographic technology of digital "watermarks" and ANSI X9.17. The proposed methodics allowed to provide a cryptographically reliable probability of resistance to forgery for a code with at least 43 lines, while maintaining the statistical invisibility of the inserted labels. An implementation in JavaScript is provided. Such solutions will allow you to confirm authorship for individual code fragments of sufficient length.
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