oftware Protection Techniques from Reverse Engineering on Windows Operating System

undergraduate thesis

• Title: Tehnike zaštite programskog koda od reverznog inženjerstva na operacijskom sustavu Windows
• Author: Hrvoje Fabris
• Mentor: Stjepan Groš (mentor)
• Committee member: Stjepan Groš (predsjednik povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Ivan Kovačević (član povjerenstva)
• Committee member: Danko Ivošević (član povjerenstva)
• Granter: University of Zagreb; Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing; Zagreb
• Defense date and country: 2018-09-19, Croatia
• Scientific / art field, discipline and subdiscipline: TECHNICAL SCIENCES; Computing

Abstract

Tehnike zaštite programskog koda se koriste iz različitih razloga. Neki od razloga korištenja mogu biti zaštita programskog koda od piratstva ili zaštita od mijenjanja koda. Neke tehnike korištenja, kao što si provjera debuggera ili računanje sažetka određenog dijela koda mogu usporiti napadača prilikom napada, ali ne mogu potpuno onemogućiti reverzanje. Svaka tehnika za koju je potrebno puno više vremena za zaobići tu provjeru od vremena potrebno za implementirati tu provjeru je dobra tehnika. Za dobru zaštitu programskog koda je potrebno pronaći ravnotežu između povećanja veličine i vremena izvoženja programa i korištenja boljih tehnika zaštite.

Abstract (english)

Software protection techniques are used for various reasons. Some of the reasons why software protection techniques are used are to protect code from piracy or from changing. Some protection techniques, like checking for a debugger or calculating hash value of some parts of the code, can make reverse engineering difficult, but there are no protection which will make reverse engineering impossible. In order for software protection technique to be secure, the effort to break it must be significantly higher than the effort to implement it. In order to have good protection of code, it is necessary to find the balance between the cost, performance and the complexity of software protection techniques.

• Keywords: Tehnike zaštite; reverzno inženjerstvo; debugger; zaštita koda
• Keywords (english): Software protection; reverse engineering; debugger; code protection
• Language: croatian
• URN:NBN: urn:nbn:hr:168:850082
• Study programme: Title: Računarstvo; Study programme type: sveučilišni; Study level: preddiplomski; Academic / professional title: sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/ prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) inženjer/inženjerka računarstva (sveučilišni/a prvostupnik/ prvostupnica (baccalaureus/baccalaurea) inženjer/inženjerka računarstva)
• Type of resource: text
• File origin: Born digital
• Access conditions: Closed access
• Created on: 2019-03-13 20:10:35