Binary Protection Schemes

Presented at REcon 2005, June 17, 2005, 1 p.m. (60 minutes).

The presentation will cover various issues regarding: protecting binaries against analysis license code implementation schemes modifications that can be made against a binary watermarking a binary This presentation will mainly focus on the Linux operating system, however, the ideas presented are applicable for other operating systems as well. The presentation is aimed to give a general high level overview with some examples to demonstrate the case in point. An indepth paper on these subjects is included on the conference CD.

Presenters:

• Andrew Griffiths
  Andrew Griffiths (aka andrewg) has presented at RUXCON 2003 about Format string and Heap exploits. Additionally, he has been a staff member since the start of RUXCON. RUXCON is a computer security conference held in Sydney, Australia. In his spare time he runs / codes levels for various PullThePlug resources such as vortex.labs.pulltheplug.org and catalyst.labs.pulltheplug.org. Andrew has recently been banned from drinking on school nights with a friend by said friend after several almost all night drinking sessions causing said friend to almost miss a plane, and have to ring in sick to work.

Links:

• https://infocon.org/cons/REcon/REcon 2005/REcon 2005 videos/andrew griffiths binary protection schemes.mp4

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