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Software Tamper Resistance Based on White-Box SMS4 Implementation

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In software protection, we’ve always faced the problem that an attacker is assumed to have full control over the target software and its execution. This is similar to the attack model in white-box cryptography, which aims to provide robust and secure implementations of cryptographic schemes against white-box attacks. In this paper, we propose our tamper-resistance technique, Siren, that uses white-box implementation to make software tamper resistant. We interpret the binary of software code as lookup table and incorporate these tables into the underlying white-box SMS4 implementation. In addition, we prove that Siren has good performance in security, and show the lower space complexity and higher efficiency. Finally, we present CBC-Siren, a white-box encryption scheme using CBC mode, which can provide protection to code with flexible size.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61702331, 61472251, U1536101, 71774111, 61972249, 61972248), China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (No. 2017M621471). National Cryptography Development Fund (NO. MMJJ20170105) and Science and Technology on Communication Security Laboratory. The authors are very grateful to the anonymous referees for their valuable comments and suggestions, helping them to improve the quality of this paper.

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  1. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Tingting Lin, Yixin Zhong & Xuejia Lai

  2. Westone Cryptologic Research Center, State Key Laboratory of Cryptology, P. O. Box 5159, Beijing, 100878, China

    Xuejia Lai

  3. School of Cyber Security, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China

    Tingting Lin & Weidong Qiu

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  2. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

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Lin, T., Zhong, Y., Lai, X., Qiu, W. (2019). Software Tamper Resistance Based on White-Box SMS4 Implementation. In: Wang, G., El Saddik, A., Lai, X., Martinez Perez, G., Choo, KK. (eds) Smart City and Informatization. iSCI 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1122. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1301-5_38

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