Difference Checker for Clones

[AdminX]

This seems like a task better suited for a computer. If a secure way could be developed to submit encrypted code of two different programs and let the computer calculate and generate statistics on common code then no human would ever have to see a programmer’s code and it might then be easier to detect clones. Just an idea anyway, of course this so called system would also destroy all related data files after it printed its results.

[bob]

This seems like a task better suited for a computer. If a secure way could be developed to submit encrypted code of two different programs and let the computer calculate and generate statistics on common code then no human would ever have to see a programmer’s code and it might then be easier to detect clones. Just an idea anyway, of course this so called system would also destroy all related data files after it printed its results.

The code already exists. Many universities use this to detect plagiarism between students. The idea is that once the code is parsed, variable names, comments, and the like are not important, and it is easier to compare things.

But a chess engine is a huge chunk of code. It is then difficult to determine which parts of the code are "dummy" and which parts are "real". And minor changes to the structure of a program make this kind of comparison much more complicated...

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

This seems like a task better suited for a computer. If a secure way could be developed to submit encrypted code of two different programs and let the computer calculate and generate statistics on common code then no human would ever have to see a programmer’s code and it might then be easier to detect clones. Just an idea anyway, of course this so called system would also destroy all related data files after it printed its results.

The code already exists. Many universities use this to detect plagiarism between students. The idea is that once the code is parsed, variable names, comments, and the like are not important, and it is easier to compare things.

But a chess engine is a huge chunk of code. It is then difficult to determine which parts of the code are "dummy" and which parts are "real". And minor changes to the structure of a program make this kind of comparison much more complicated...

Thanks for the info Prof.Robert Hyatt

[AdminX]

Yeah, bob! Thanks much...