A Survey of Binary Tamper-resistance Techniques for Software Protection

DOI

10.2991/iceeecs-16.2016.96How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Software protection; Tamper-resistance; Check-respond mechanism

Abstract

Software safety issues have become severe problems in modern information industry. Binary tamper-resistance techniques as an important means for software protection, have become a worldwide popular research topic. In this paper, we firstly introduce basic concepts of software cracking and protecting, aiming at the main targets of tamper-resistance, which is precisely detecting abnormal modifying behaviors beyond the range of normal functions. Secondly, we analyze various kinds of tamper-resistance techniques based on check-respond mechanism, which can react to modifications properly and effectively. Finally, we categorize different implementations and summarize their superiorities and limitations with an evaluation system. We also propose our expectations of the development prospect on tamper-resistance techniques.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xianya Mi
AU  - Yi Zhang
AU  - Baosheng Wang
PY  - 2016/12
DA  - 2016/12
TI  - A Survey of Binary Tamper-resistance Techniques for Software Protection
BT  - Proceedings of the 2016 4th International Conference on Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Science (ICEEECS 2016)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 460
EP  - 466
SN  - 2352-538X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/iceeecs-16.2016.96
DO  - 10.2991/iceeecs-16.2016.96
ID  - Mi2016/12
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