In recent years, code obfuscation has attracted attention as a low cost approach to improving software security by making it difficult for attackers to understand the inner workings of proprietary software systems. This paper examines the extent to which current obfuscation techniques succeed in making programs harder to reverse engineer. Our results indicate that many obfuscations, designed to...

If software design-patterns could be captured and reused then this would be very helpful to reverse-engineering often practiced by those who develop and who maintain software. The ad-hoc nature and informality of this reverse-engineering process however, makes the discovery of these patterns not straightforward. Moreover, a high false positive rate results from trying to detect these design-pat...