ABSTRACT
This paper provides a technical overview of the
HARES software protection research effort performed
by Assured Information Security. HARES is an
anti reverse-engineering technique that uses on-CPU
encryption [6] in conjunction with Intel x86 TLBsplitting
[11] in order to significantly increase the
effort required to obtain the clear-text assembly instructions
that comprise the target x86 application.
Performance and use-cases of the system are presented,
and a number of weaknesses and future
works are discussed. Related works are compared
and contrasted with HARES in order to highlight
its improvements over the current state-of-the-art.
This paper provides a technical overview of the
HARES software protection research effort performed
by Assured Information Security. HARES is an
anti reverse-engineering technique that uses on-CPU
encryption [6] in conjunction with Intel x86 TLBsplitting
[11] in order to significantly increase the
effort required to obtain the clear-text assembly instructions
that comprise the target x86 application.
Performance and use-cases of the system are presented,
and a number of weaknesses and future
works are discussed. Related works are compared
and contrasted with HARES in order to highlight
its improvements over the current state-of-the-art.
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