Metrics-based evaluation of slicing obfuscations

Proceedings - IAS 2007 3rd Internationl Symposium on Information Assurance and Security

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 472-477

  Majumdar, Anirban ^a   Drape, Stephen ^a   Thomborson, Clark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Metrics; Obfuscation; Slicing

Indexed keywords

REENGINEERING; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN (ED); INFORMATION ASSURANCE AND SECURITY (IAS); METRICS (CO); PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; REVERSE ENGINEERING TOOLS; SECRET DATA; STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6);

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

EID: 46749148846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IAS.2007.50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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