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Code Renewability for Native Software Protection

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Bert Abrath *
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Bart Coppens
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Jens Van den Broeck
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Brecht Wyseur
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Alessandro Cabutto
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Paolo Falcarin
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Bjorn De Sutter
DOI:10.1145/3404891delete
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Software protection aims at safeguarding assets embedded in software by preventing and delaying reverse engineering and tampering attacks. This article presents an architecture and supporting tool flow to renew parts of native applications dynamically. Renewed and diversified code and data belonging to either the original application or to linked-in protections are delivered from a secure server to a client on demand. This results in frequent changes to the software components when they are under attack, thus making attacks harder. By supporting various forms of diversification and renewability, novel protection combinations become available and existing combinations become stronger. The prototype implementation is evaluated on several industrial use cases.
Keywords:
Man-at-the-end attacks
online protection
diversification
software updates
security server
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ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security
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Ghent University
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University of East London
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