Obfuscation Mechanism in Conjunction with Tamper-Proof Module

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhide Fukushima;Shinsaku Kiyomoto;Toshiaki Tanaka

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • CSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper proposes a software obfuscation mechanism in conjunction with a tamper-proof module.The proposed mechanism overcomes the limitation of software-based obfuscation techniques where an obfuscated program contains critical parameters in itself.We divide a program into two parts: an obfuscated program and secret parameters.The obfuscated program is executed on a mobile phone or a computer, and it cannot be solely analyzed.An applet in the tamper-proof module securely stores the secret parameters and assists the execution of the obfuscation program. We implemented the proposed mechanism on a mobile phone and user identify module.The experiment results provide criteria for leveraging our obfuscation mechanism to protect both small-sized and large-sized programs.