Hardware assisted control flow obfuscation for embedded processors

CASES 2004: International Conference on Compilers, Architecture, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 292-302

  Zhuang, Xiaotong ^a   Zhang, Tao ^a   Lee, Hsien Hsin S ^a   Pande, Santosh ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control Flow Graph; Obfuscation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CRYPTOGRAPHY; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SECURITY OF DATA;

CONTROL FLOW GRAPH; EMBEDDED PLATFORMS; OBFUSCATION; TRANSACTION TERMINALS;

PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

EID: 29144444415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1023833.1023873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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