Watermarking, Tamper-Proofing, and Obfuscation-Tools for Software Protection

By Christian S. Collberg, Clark D. Thomborson. IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2002

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Context2Name: A Deep Learning-Based Approach to Infer Natural Variable Names from Usage Contexts (2017, background): “ 5.1 Obfuscation Program obfuscation has applications in protection of intellectual property [15], resistance against reverse-engineering 10 and software tampering [6, 21, 39] as well as watermarking [33]. An obfuscator is basically a compiler, that takes an input program, and outputs a semantically”
Static Disassembly of Obfuscated Binaries (2004, background): “A number of approaches have been proposed to make the reverse-engineering process harder [8, 9, 17].”
Recovering clear, natural identifiers from obfuscated JS names (2017, background): “Code obfuscation is a general topic, spanning a wide range of goals: in addition to intellectual property protection [15], applications include inter alia, tamper-resistance [4, 44], and water-marking [12].”
Obfuscation of executable code to improve resistance to static disassembly (2003, methodology): “An alternative approach, which we focus on, is to use code obfuscation techniques to enhance software security [9, 10, 11, 12, 28].”
Watermarking Relational Databases (2002, neutral): “Techniques for watermarking software have had limited success [5].”