Title :
Obfuscation as Intellectual Rights Protection in VHDL Language
Author :
Brzozowski, Maciej ; Yarmolik, Vyacheslav N.
Author_Institution :
Bialystok Tech. Univ., Bialystok
Abstract :
Software is more and more frequently distributed inform of source code. Unprotected code is easy to alter and build in others projects. The answer for attacks against intellectual rights is obfuscation, a process that makes software unintelligible but still functional. In this paper we review several generic techniques of obfuscation VHDL (Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language) code and present a set of them for software protection. We are going to describe some related experimental work.
Keywords :
hardware description languages; industrial property; security of data; VHDL language; Very High Speed Integrated Circuit Hardware Description Language; intellectual rights protection; obfuscation; software protection; source code; unintelligible software; unprotected code; Computer science; Costs; Hardware design languages; History; Java; Logic; Reverse engineering; Software protection; Table lookup; Very high speed integrated circuits;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, 2007. CISIM '07. 6th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Minneapolis, MN
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2894-5
DOI :
10.1109/CISIM.2007.51
