Exploiting Self-Modification Mechanism for Program Protection

Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society's International Computer Software and Applications Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 170-179

  Kanzaki, Yuichiro ^a   Monden, Akito ^a   Nakamura, Masahide ^a   Matsumoto, Ken Ichi ^a  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER CRIME; COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA;

BINARY PROGRAMS; DUMMY INSTRUCTIONS;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0345529075     PISSN: 07303157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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