Software obfuscation from crackers' viewpoint

Authors:
Hiroki Yamauchi;Yuichiro Kanzaki;Akito Monden;Masahide Nakamura;Ken-ichi Matsumoto
Affiliations:
Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma Nara, Japan;Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Takayama, Ikoma Nara, Japan
Venue:
ACST'06 Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED international conference on Advances in computer science and technology
Year:
2006

Citing 6
Cited 2

Secret sharing homomorphisms: keeping shares of a secret secret

Proceedings on Advances in cryptology---CRYPTO '86
Java virtual machine

Java virtual machine
Watermarking, tamper-proffing, and obfuscation: tools for software protection

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
White-Box Cryptography and an AES Implementation

SAC '02 Revised Papers from the 9th Annual International Workshop on Selected Areas in Cryptography
Protection of Software-Based Survivability Mechanisms

DSN '01 Proceedings of the 2001 International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (formerly: FTCS)
Exploiting Self-Modification Mechanism for Program Protection

COMPSAC '03 Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Computer Software and Applications

Opcodes as predictor for malware

International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics
Analysis of Program Obfuscation Schemes with Variable Encoding Technique

IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Various kinds of software obfuscation methods have been proposed to protect security-sensitive information involved in software implementations. This paper proposes a cracker-centric approach to give a guideline for employing existing obfuscation methods to disrupt crackers' actions.