ABYSS: An Architecture for Software Protection
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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POPL '98 Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
Architectural support for copy and tamper resistant software
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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CRYPTO '01 Proceedings of the 21st Annual International Cryptology Conference on Advances in Cryptology
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ICCL '98 Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Computer Languages
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ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS)
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Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Compilers, architecture, and synthesis for embedded systems
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ICCD '04 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Design
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IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems
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IWSEC '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Security: Advances in Information and Computer Security
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IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
RTL Hardware IP Protection Using Key-Based Control and Data Flow Obfuscation
VLSID '10 Proceedings of the 2010 23rd International Conference on VLSI Design
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Protection against software piracy and malicious modification of software is proving to be a great challenge for resource-constrained embedded systems. In this paper, we develop a non-cryptographic, keybased, control flow obfuscation technique, which can be implemented by computationally efficient means, and is capable of operating with minimal hardware support. The scheme is based on matching a series of expected keys in sequence, similar to the unlocking process in a combination lock, and provides high levels of resistance to static and dynamic analyses. It is capable of protecting embedded software against both piracy as well as non-self-replicating malicious modifications. Simulation results on a set of MIPS assembly language programs show that the technique is capable of providing high levels of security at nominal computational overhead and about 10% code-size increase.