METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SOFTWARE INTEGRITY PROTECTION USING TIMED EXECUTABLE AGENT

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for evaluating the security of at least one client. SOLUTION: An executable program is executed by the client being evaluated. A result is received from the executable program and an evaluation of the result indicates whether the client is corr...

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Main Authors HUELSBERGEN LORENZ F, GARAY JUAN A
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Published 18.05.2006
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
PHYSICS
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Summary:PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for evaluating the security of at least one client. SOLUTION: An executable program is executed by the client being evaluated. A result is received from the executable program and an evaluation of the result indicates whether the client is corrupted. The executable program is one of a plurality of possible programs. The result can be evaluated based on an elapsed time between when the executable program is provided to the client and when the result is received. The executable program can include at least one function that writes to a memory of the client. A program blinding technique is also disclosed to generate executable programs. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI
Bibliography:Application Number: JP20050312096