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bypass MOSS technique used to detect code plagiarism

NoMoss

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Bypass MOSS technique which is used to detect code plagiarism

Link to no-moss online code editor : NoMoss

What is MOSS:

Moss (Measure of Software Similarity) is an algorithm devloped by Stanford for educational purposes to code up with code plagarism. This technique is being used by various competetive coding websites like CodeChef to keep a check on plagarism.

You can see how Moss work on Stanford website - Source

Disadvantage of MOSS:

Although this technique is awesome but it isn't perfect. As it harms some innocent canddates while some criminals are able to escape.

What is NoMoss?

NoMoss is a technique to bypass MOSS, which has been developed on the firm belief of

"No innocent should be hanged even though hundreds of criminals are to be librated."

besides No-Moss would also help in the development of moss technology by exposing its loopholes.

How to use:

You can use NoMoss on its online code editor - NoMoss

For using NoMoss on standalone systems:

1. Download JSP from Here
2. Create a file name "input.txt" with your code inside it in the same directory as "NoMoss.jar"
3. If your code is in JAVA or C ,add "//1" or"//2" (without quotes) respectively as the first line of your code.
4. Now run the file "NoMoss.jar"
5. A new file "output.txt" with your code will be created.

How it works:

It utilizes the brute-force algorithm of the technique to create a NoMoss clone of the original code.
I am continuously trying to improve the algorithms of No-moss further so that it becomes almost impossible for a MOSS detector to detect plagiarism.

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Author

Idea and creator - Arpit Srivastava

Contributors

Aman Raj

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nomoss's Issues

Updating readability

Assign me to this , I am going to work on this

Adding code in c++

Assign me to add support in C++

I will try to add these features

• Add support in cpp
• Initialise code in python

A little suggestion for NoMoss

When I use MOSS to find code plagiarism, I found use define to change some function's name would reduce the similarity of code. Hope this suggestion is useful.