Stylometric Defenses Against Author Impersonation in Software Repositories

arXiv:2608.02695 · cs.CR, cs.LG, cs.SE · Submitted 2026-08-03 · Read on arXiv

Leonid Ravich, Michael Fire

cs.CR, cs.LG, cs.SE

Submitted: 2026-08-03

Code: https://github.com/L1NNA/SourceCodeAuthorsh

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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Sources

• DevPhish: Exploring Social Engineering in Software Supply Chain Attacks on Developers
• SoK: A Defense-Oriented Evaluation of Software Supply Chain Security
• CommitBART: A Large Pre-trained Model for GitHub Commits
• OCEAN: Open-World Contrastive Authorship Identification
• Robust and Accurate Authorship Attribution via Program Normalization

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