An approach to the objective and quantitative evaluation of tamper-resistant software

Hideaki Goto; Masahiro Mambo; Kenjiro Matsumura; Hiroki Shizuya

doi:10.1007/3-540-44456-4_7

An approach to the objective and quantitative evaluation of tamper-resistant software

Hideaki Goto, Masahiro Mambo, Kenjiro Matsumura, Hiroki Shizuya

Tohoku University

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Abstract

Tamper-resistant software has been studied as techniques to protect algorithm or secret data. There are many ways to realize tamperresistant software including the method of making software hard to read. So far, no objective and quantitative method is known for evaluating tamper-resistant software. Most of known evaluation methods require involvement of human being. That means their evaluation results deeply depend on the skill and subjectivity of human. Therefore, it has been expected to devise an objective and quantitative evaluation method in place of subjective evaluation methods. In this paper we propose a new such method to measure how hard to read. The basic idea is to use the parse tree of a compiler for a programming language, and evaluate depth and weights of the tree for a code. We give some experimental results to examine its effectiveness.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Information Security - 3rd International Workshop, ISW 2000, Proceedings
Editors	Josef Pieprzyk, Jennifer Seberry, Eiji Okamoto
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	82-96
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	3540414169, 9783540414162
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44456-4_7
Publication status	Published - 2000
Event	3rd International Workshop on Information Security, ISW 2000 - Wollongong, Australia Duration: 2000 Dec 20 → 2000 Dec 21

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	1975
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	3rd International Workshop on Information Security, ISW 2000
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Wollongong
Period	00/12/20 → 00/12/21

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Goto, H., Mambo, M., Matsumura, K., & Shizuya, H. (2000). An approach to the objective and quantitative evaluation of tamper-resistant software. In J. Pieprzyk, J. Seberry, & E. Okamoto (Eds.), Information Security - 3rd International Workshop, ISW 2000, Proceedings (pp. 82-96). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1975). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44456-4_7

Goto, Hideaki ; Mambo, Masahiro ; Matsumura, Kenjiro et al. / An approach to the objective and quantitative evaluation of tamper-resistant software. Information Security - 3rd International Workshop, ISW 2000, Proceedings. editor / Josef Pieprzyk ; Jennifer Seberry ; Eiji Okamoto. Springer Verlag, 2000. pp. 82-96 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Goto, H, Mambo, M, Matsumura, K & Shizuya, H 2000, An approach to the objective and quantitative evaluation of tamper-resistant software. in J Pieprzyk, J Seberry & E Okamoto (eds), Information Security - 3rd International Workshop, ISW 2000, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 1975, Springer Verlag, pp. 82-96, 3rd International Workshop on Information Security, ISW 2000, Wollongong, Australia, 00/12/20. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44456-4_7

An approach to the objective and quantitative evaluation of tamper-resistant software. / Goto, Hideaki; Mambo, Masahiro; Matsumura, Kenjiro et al.
Information Security - 3rd International Workshop, ISW 2000, Proceedings. ed. / Josef Pieprzyk; Jennifer Seberry; Eiji Okamoto. Springer Verlag, 2000. p. 82-96 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 1975).

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Goto H, Mambo M, Matsumura K, Shizuya H. An approach to the objective and quantitative evaluation of tamper-resistant software. In Pieprzyk J, Seberry J, Okamoto E, editors, Information Security - 3rd International Workshop, ISW 2000, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2000. p. 82-96. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/3-540-44456-4_7

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