Research Article
Metrics-based Evaluation of Slicing Obfuscations
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1109/IAS.2007.50, author={Anirban Majumdar and Stephen Drape and Clark Thomborson}, title={Metrics-based Evaluation of Slicing Obfuscations}, proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Data Hiding for Information and Multimedia Security}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={DHIM}, year={2007}, month={9}, keywords={Evaluation Metrics Obfuscation Slicing}, doi={10.1109/IAS.2007.50} }- Anirban Majumdar
Stephen Drape
Clark Thomborson
Year: 2007
Metrics-based Evaluation of Slicing Obfuscations
DHIM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.50
Abstract
An obfuscation aims to transform a program, without affecting its functionality, so that some secret data within the program can be hidden for as long as possible from an adversary armed with reverse engineering tools. Slicing is a reverse engineering technique which produces a subset of a program that is dependent on a particular program point and is used to aid in program comprehension. Thus slicing could be used as a way of attacking obfuscated programs. In this contribution, we highlight a few obfuscating transforms that were proposed in an earlier publication for making attacks difficult to mount using slicers and then illustrate an experimental design to evaluate the strength of these transforms with respect to well defined slicing metrics.
