Ryan Gabrys
ABSTRACT
We consider the application of a genetic algorithm (GA) to the problem of hiding information in program executables. In a nutshell, our approach is to re-order instructions in a program in such way that aims to maximize the amount of data that can be embedded while, at the same time, ensuring the functionality of the executable is not altered. In this work, we focus on the problem of identifying a large set of instructions which may be re-ordered, and some initial results on the IA-64 architecture are then presented that illustrate the potential benefit of such an approach.*
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Index Terms
- A change would do you good: GA-Based approach for hiding data in program executables
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