On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:08 AM, Glenn and Mary Everhart <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, FD... > A thought occurred to me: > Why not use the same kind of polymorphism and software metamorphism that > is used by malware writers as a protective measure? > > If you have a piece of code that you don't want malware to be able to > inspect, that might perhaps > have some "secrets" in it or that you want not to be trivial to have > some other code patch, > why not arrange for that code to be different in form (but the same in > function) with every copy?
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/ has DARPA money to do just that. Not convinced its a great idea myself. _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
