July 2009
Intermediate to advanced
792 pages
20h 22m
English
Overview
“This book gives thorough, scholarly coverage of an
area of growing importance in computer security and is a
‘must have’ for every researcher, student, and
practicing professional in software protection.”
—Mikhail Atallah, Distinguished Professor
of Computer Science at Purdue University
Theory, Techniques, and Tools for Fighting Software Piracy,
Tampering, and Malicious Reverse Engineering
The last decade has seen significant progress in the development of
techniques for resisting software piracy and tampering. These
techniques are indispensable for software developers seeking to
protect vital intellectual property. Surreptitious
Software is the first authoritative, comprehensive resource
for researchers, developers, and students who want to understand
these approaches, the level of security they afford, and the
performance penalty they incur.
Christian Collberg and Jasvir Nagra bring together techniques drawn
from related areas of computer science, including cryptography,
steganography, watermarking, software metrics, reverse engineering,
and compiler optimization. Using extensive sample code, they show
readers how to implement protection schemes ranging from code
obfuscation and software fingerprinting to tamperproofing and
birthmarking, and discuss the theoretical and practical limitations
of these techniques.
Coverage includes
Mastering techniques that both attackers and defenders use to analyze programs
Using code obfuscation to make software harder to analyze and understand
Fingerprinting software to identify its author and to trace software pirates
Tamperproofing software using guards that detect and respond to illegal modifications of code and data
Strengthening content protection through dynamic watermarking and dynamic obfuscation
Detecting code theft via software similarity analysis and birthmarking algorithms
Using hardware techniques to defend software and media against piracy and tampering
Detecting software tampering in distributed system
Understanding the theoretical limits of code obfuscation
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