Source Code Anti-Plagiarism: a C# Implementation using the Routing Approach

TL;DR

This paper presents a C# implementation of a source code anti-plagiarism technique using routing, combining encryption and hashing to prevent code comprehension and modifications by plagiarists.

Contribution

It introduces a novel routing-based approach that enhances source code protection against plagiarism through encryption and hashing.

Findings

Effective in rendering source code incomprehensible

Prevents source code modifications

Utilizes cryptographic techniques for security

Abstract

Despite the approaches proposed so far, software plagiarism is still a problem which has not been solved entirely yet. The approach introduced throughout this paper is about a source code anti-plagiarism technique which aims at rendering the source code incomprehensible to a possible plagiarist and at the same time preventing source code modifications. The proposal is based on the concept of Router and makes use of both symmetric encryption and cryptographic hashing functions to provide such guarantees.