Binary Protection Schemes

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_2005 CD.

Bio

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_2005 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.