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| Online Access: | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10608 |
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| author | Dorfmeister, Daniel Ferrarotti, Flavio Fischer, Bernhard Haslinger, Evelyn Ramler, Rudolf Zimmermann, Markus |
| author_facet | Dorfmeister, Daniel Ferrarotti, Flavio Fischer, Bernhard Haslinger, Evelyn Ramler, Rudolf Zimmermann, Markus |
| contents | We introduce a novel copy-protection method for industrial control software. With our method, a program executes correctly only on its target hardware and behaves differently on other machines. The hardware-software binding is based on Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs). We use symbolic execution to guarantee the preservation of safety properties if the software is executed on a different machine, or if there is a problem with the PUF response. Moreover, we show that the protection method is also secure against reverse engineering. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | An Approach for Safe and Secure Software Protection Supported by Symbolic Execution Dorfmeister, Daniel Ferrarotti, Flavio Fischer, Bernhard Haslinger, Evelyn Ramler, Rudolf Zimmermann, Markus Cryptography and Security We introduce a novel copy-protection method for industrial control software. With our method, a program executes correctly only on its target hardware and behaves differently on other machines. The hardware-software binding is based on Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs). We use symbolic execution to guarantee the preservation of safety properties if the software is executed on a different machine, or if there is a problem with the PUF response. Moreover, we show that the protection method is also secure against reverse engineering. |
| title | An Approach for Safe and Secure Software Protection Supported by Symbolic Execution |
| topic | Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.10608 |