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Dynamic Taint Analysis versus Obfuscated Self-Checking (ACSAC 12.2021)


Software protection in practice addresses the yearly loss of tens of billion USD for software manufacturers, a result of malicious end-users tampering with the software (”software cracking”). Software protection is prevalent in the gaming and license checking industries, and also relevant in the embedded and other industries. State of the art research in the area of software tamper protection against man-at-the-end (MATE) attackers focuses on the localization of integrity checks. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3485832.3485926