On the possibility of practically obfuscating programs towards a unified perspective of code protection

Journal in Computer Virology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-21

  Beaucamps, Philippe ^a   Filiol, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b Ecole Superieure et d'Application des Transmissions   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; AUTOMATION; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER VIRUSES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

MALWARE; OBFUSCATING PROGRAMS; OBFUSCATOR; ORACLE;

SECURITY OF DATA;

EID: 33947609379     PISSN: 17729890     EISSN: 17729904     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11416-006-0029-6     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. GOST 281.47-89. Cryptographic protection for data processing systems, 1980. White paper, available from http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/732/netflow
2. Barak, B., Goldreich, O., Impagliazzo, R., Rudich, S., Sahai, A., Vadhan, S., Yang, K.: On the (im)possibility of obfuscating programs. In: Proceedings of CRYPTO, pp. 1-18, November 2001
3. Collberg, C., Thomborson, C., Low, D.: A taxonomy of obfuscating transformations. Technical Report 148, Department of Computer Science, University of Auckland, July 1997
4. Filiol, E.: Strong cryptography armoured computer viruses forbidding code analysis: the BRADLEY virus. In: Broucek, V. (ed.) Proceedings of the 14th EICAR Conference, pp. 201-217, May 2005
5. Filiol, E.: Techniques virales avancées. Springer, France (2006). An English translation is pending and will be in print at the beginning of 2007
6. Goldwasser, S., Micali, S.: Probabilistic encryption. J. Comp. Syst. Scie. 28, 270-299 (1984)
7. Kleene, S.C.: On notation for ordinal numbers. J. Symbolic Logic 3(4), 150-155 (1938)
8. Lenstra, A.K.: Integer factoring. Des. Codes Cryptograp. 19, 101-128 (2000)
9. Morain, F.: Thirty years of integer factorization. In: Chyzak F. (ed.) Proceedings of the Algorithms Seminar 2000-2001, p. 77-80, April 2002
10. Micali, S., Rackoff, C., Sloan, B.: The notion of security for probabilistic cryptosystems. SIAM J. Comput. 17, 412-426 (1988)
11. Menezes, A.J., van Oorschot, P.C., Vanstone, S.A.: Handbook of Applied Cryptography. CRC Press (1997)
12. Papadimitriou, C.: Complexity Theory. Addison Wesley, Reading (1995)
13. Pomerance, C.: The quadratic sieve factoring algorithm. In: Beth, T., Cot, N., Ingemarsson, I. (eds.) Advances in Cryptology - Eurocrypt'84, LNCS vol. 209, pp. 169-182. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Newyork (1984)
14. Shannon, C.E.: Communication theory of secrecy systems. Bell Syst. Tech. J., 28, 656-715 (1949)
15. Zuo, Z., Zhou, M.: On the time complexity of computer viruses. IEEE Trans. Informat. Theory 51(8), 2962-2966 (2005)