A Study of Software Protection Techniques

Memon, Jan M.; Khan, Asma; Baig, Amber; Shah, Asadullah

doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-6268-1_45

Cited by 4 publications

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“…Existing software based approaches often exploit using a number of software protection techniques including obfuscation [1], [2], code encryption [3], [4] and selfchecksumming [5], [6]. Some other protection techniques can be found in [7], [8]. Code encryption could involve a large execution overhead; thus, we do not consider using this technique.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Robust Anti-tamper Protection Scheme

Tsang

Lee

Pun

2011

2011 Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

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This paper proposes a robust antitamper protection scheme to protect any critical regions of a program from being modified, using possibly a large number of lightweight protection units, called protectors, installed among the program code. A protector would cause an incorrect execution if the code protected by it has been tempered. The protectors are organized in the form of a protection tree. The root node is a critical region, and other nodes are protectors. The protection scheme also supports non-deterministic execution of functions. Modifying any critical region in the protected program has been shown to require an exponential time. Experiment results show that the proposed scheme would not increase noticeably the program execution time.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Robust Anti-tamper Protection Scheme

Tsang

Lee

Pun

2011

2011 Sixth International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security

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“…A code encryption scheme encrypts the binary executable code. This is accomplished by encrypting the program at some point after it is compiled [6], [7]. However, skillful reverse engineers can easily find the secret key.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Secure and Efficient Code Encryption Scheme Based on Indexed Table

Cho

Shin

et al. 2011

ETRI J

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Software is completely exposed to an attacker after it is distributed because reverse engineering is widely known. To protect software, techniques against reverse engineering are necessary. A code encryption scheme is one of the techniques. A code encryption scheme encrypts the binary executable code. Key management is the most important part of the code encryption scheme. However, previous schemes had problems with key management. In an effort to solve these problems in this paper, we survey the previous code encryption schemes and then propose a new code encryption scheme based on an indexed table. Our scheme provides secure and efficient key management for code encryption.

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“…However, from this huge available published literature, it becomes very difficult for the scientific community to know which topics have been evolved from which other topics, what are relationship types and strengths between topics and some similar questions [1][2][3][4][5][6][7]. The current search engines such as Google, Bing, Yahoo, citation indexes: Google Scholar, Cite Seer, ISI Web of Knowledge, and digital libraries: IEEE, ACM, and Springer, do not keep any track of that kind of relationship between the topic 1 *Corresponding Author One important part of Topic Evolution is a representation of results to the user.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%