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

fYear

2014

fDate

5-7 Nov. 2014

Firstpage

521

Lastpage

525

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom), 2014 5th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Vietri sul Mare

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CogInfoCom.2014.7020512

Filename

7020512