Title :
Cognitive evaluation of intermediate level obfuscator
Author :
Dunaev, Dmitriy ; Lengyel, Laszlo
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Autom. & Appl. Inf., Budapest Univ. of Technol. & Econ. (BME), Budapest, Hungary
Abstract :
Obfuscation is a technology that secures software from unauthorized analysis and modification by making the cost of reverse engineering prohibitively high. Whereas there exist standard measurements for source-code and machine-code obfuscators, there is no standard approach to evaluate the quality of platform-independent obfuscator. This paper aims at cognitive evaluation of intermediate level obfuscator in terms of potency, resilience and cost. The described techniques are universal, and can be used apart from the presented obfuscator tool.
Keywords :
reverse engineering; security of data; software engineering; cognitive evaluation; intermediate level obfuscator; obfuscator cost; obfuscator potency; obfuscator resilience; platform-independent obfuscator; reverse engineering; software security; Complexity theory; Conferences; Context; Cryptography; Measurement; Resilience; Software; cognitive evaluation; cognitive infocommunications; intermediate level obfuscation; potency; resilience; socio-cognitive ICT; three-address code;
Conference_Titel :
Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2014 5th IEEE Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vietri sul Mare
DOI :
10.1109/CogInfoCom.2014.7020512
