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6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007)
Slicing Aided Design of Obfuscating Transforms
Melbourne, Australia
July 11-July 13
ISBN: 0-7695-2841-4
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Stephen Drape, Anirban Majumdar, Clark Thomborson, "Slicing Aided Design of Obfuscating Transforms," Computer and Information Science, ACIS International Conference on, pp. 1019-1024, 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), 2007.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/ICIS.2007.167,
author = {Stephen Drape and Anirban Majumdar and Clark Thomborson},
title = {Slicing Aided Design of Obfuscating Transforms},
journal ={Computer and Information Science, ACIS International Conference on},
volume = {0},
year = {2007},
isbn = {0-7695-2841-4},
pages = {1019-1024},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ICIS.2007.167},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Stephen Drape, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Anirban Majumdar, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Clark Thomborson, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
An obfuscation aims to transform a program, without affecting its functionality, so that some secret information within the program can be hidden for as long as possible from an adversary armed with reverse engineering tools. Slicing is a reverse engineering technique which aims to produce a subset of a program which is dependent on a particular program point and is used to aid in program comprehension. Thus slicing could be used as a way of attacking obfuscated programs. Can we design obfuscations which are more resilient to slicing attacks?

In this paper we present a novel approach to creating obfuscating transforms which are designed to survive slicing attacks. We show how we can utilise the information gained from slicing a program to aid us in manufacturing obfuscations that are more resistant to slicing. We give a definition for what it means for a transformation to be a slicing obfuscation and we illustrate our approach with a number of obfuscating transforms.

Index Terms:
Obfuscation, Slicing, Program Transformation
Citation:
Stephen Drape, Anirban Majumdar, Clark Thomborson, "Slicing Aided Design of Obfuscating Transforms," icis, pp.1019-1024, 6th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICIS 2007), 2007
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