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A Crypto Trick that Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse-Engineer

posted by martyb on Wednesday February 18 2015, @04:55AM   Printer-friendly
from the cracker-jack-anti-crack-hack dept.

AnonTechie writes:

Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs. It’s also what allows those same hackers’ dangerous malware to be deconstructed and neutered. Now a new encryption trick could make both those tasks much, much harder.

At the SyScan conference next month in Singapore, security researcher Jacob Torrey plans to present a new scheme he calls Hardened Anti-Reverse Engineering System, or HARES. Torrey’s method encrypts software code such that it’s only decrypted by the computer’s processor at the last possible moment before the code is executed. This prevents reverse engineering tools from reading the decrypted code as it’s being run. The result is tough-to-crack protection from any hacker who would pirate the software, suss out security flaws that could compromise users, and even in some cases understand its basic functions.

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/crypto-trick-makes-software-nearly-impossible-reverse-engineer/

 
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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by q.kontinuum on Wednesday February 18 2015, @10:28AM

    by q.kontinuum (532) on Wednesday February 18 2015, @10:28AM (#146466) Journal

    Hmmm, looks like slashdot's been soylented!

    I think the right term is soylenced?

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Nerdfest on Wednesday February 18 2015, @11:06AM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Wednesday February 18 2015, @11:06AM (#146476)

    I prefer "it has soyled itself".

  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:59PM

    by FatPhil (863) <reversethis-{if.fdsa} {ta} {tnelyos-cp}> on Wednesday February 18 2015, @01:59PM (#146508) Homepage
    That is beyond superb. Let's hope our readership gets big enough so that we have enough chances to use it!
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