For simulation, a tradeoff exists between speed and accuracy. The more instructions simulated from the workload, the more accurate the results — but at a higher cost. To reduce ...
Abstract—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...
Stephen Drape, Anirban Majumdar, Clark D. Thombors...
The reengineering and reverse engineering of software systems is gaining importance in software industry, because the accelerated turnover in software companies creates legacy sys...
Protocol reverse engineering is the process of extracting application-level specifications for network protocols. Such specifications are very helpful in a number of security-re...
Gilbert Wondracek, Paolo Milani Comparetti, Christ...
During the maintenance of legacy systems, the structure and the documentationofthe system usually deteriorates, and hence the maintenance becomesprogressively harder and harder. I...