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The Study on Software Tamper Resistance for Securing Game Services (게임 서비스 보호를 위한 소프트웨어 위변조 방지기술 연구)

  • Chang, Hang-Bae;Kang, Jong-Gu;Joe, Tae-Hee
    • Journal of Korea Multimedia Society
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    • v.12 no.8
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    • pp.1120-1127
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    • 2009
  • The commensurate number of the attacks and infringement targeting a vulnerability of the game service has been increasing constantly, due to the dramatic growth and expansion of the impact of the game industry. However, there exist no subsequent researches for the differentiated technology, which is to prevent the reverse function of the game service. Therefore, in this study, we examined the current status of infringement toward online game services which are provided in the market currently and designed the proper technical measures for a manipulation of the game service which is the most vulnerable part. We have encrypted an execution file and decrypted it in real time process. Furthermore, we conducted debugging, disassemble, and prevented a its own memory dump, also concealed the information to overcome the module dependency to preclude a manipulation.

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AN IMPROVED ADDITIVE MODEL FOR RELIABILITY ANALYSIS OF SOFTWARE WITH MODULAR STRUCTURE

  • Chatterjee, S.;Nigam, S.;Singh, J.B.;Upadhyaya, L.N.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.30 no.3_4
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    • pp.489-498
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    • 2012
  • Most of the software reliability models are based on black box approach and these models consider the entire software system as a single unit. Present day software development process has changed a lot. In present scenario these models may not give better results. To overcome this problem an improved additive model has been proposed in this paper, to estimate the reliability of software with modular structure. Also the concept of imperfect debugging has been also considered. A maximum likelihood estimation technique has been used for estimating the model parameters. Comparison has been made with an existing model. ${\chi}^2$ goodness of fit has been used for model fitting. The proposed model has been validated using real data.

A Framework for Detecting Data Races in Weapon Software (무기체계 소프트웨어의 자료경합을 탐지하기 위한 프레임워크)

  • Oh, Jin-Woo;Choi, Eu-Teum;Jun, Yong-Kee
    • IEMEK Journal of Embedded Systems and Applications
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    • v.13 no.6
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    • pp.305-312
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    • 2018
  • Software has been used to develop many functions of the modern weapon systems which has a high mission criticality. Weapon system software must consider multi-threaded processing to satisfy growing performance requirement. However, developing multi-threaded programs are difficult because of concurrency faults, such as unintended data races. Especially, it is important to prepare analysis for debugging the data races, because the weapon system software may cause personal injury. In this paper, we present an efficient framework of analysis, called ConDeWS, which is designed to determine the scope of dynamic analysis through using the result of static analysis and fault analysis. As a result of applying the implemented framework to the target software, we have detected unintended data races that were not detected in the static analysis.

A Study on the Reliability Growth Trend of Operational S/W Failure Reduction

  • Che, Gyu-Shik;Kim, Yong-Kyung
    • Proceedings of the Korea Society of Information Technology Applications Conference
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    • 2005.11a
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    • pp.143-146
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    • 2005
  • The software reliability growth depends on the testing time because the failure rate varies whether it is long or not. On the other hand, it might be difficult to reduce failure rate for most of the cases are not available for debugging during operational phase, hence, there are some literatures to study that the failure rate is uniform throughout the operational time. The failure rate reduces and the reliability grows with time regardless of debugging. As a result, the products reliability varies with the time duration of these products in point of customer view. The reason of this is that it accumulates the products experience, studies the exact operational method, and then finds and takes action against the fault circumstances. I propose the simple model to represent this status in this paper.

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An Implementation of JTAG API to Perform Dynamic Program Analysis for Embedded Systems (임베디드 시스템 동적 프로그램 분석을 위한 JTAG API 구현)

  • Kim, Hyung Chan;Park, Il Hwan
    • KIPS Transactions on Computer and Communication Systems
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.31-42
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    • 2014
  • Debugger systems are necessary to apply dynamic program analysis when evaluating security properties of embedded system software. It may be possible to make the use of software-based debugger and/or DBI framework if target devices support general purpose operating systems, however, constraints on applicability as well as environmental transparency might be incurred thereby hindering overall analyzability. Analysis with JTAG (IEEE 1149.1) debugging devices can overcome these difficulties in that no change would be involved in terms of internal software environment. In that sense, JTAG API can facilitate to practically perform dynamic program analysis for evaluating security properties of target device software. In this paper, we introduce an implementation of JTAG API to enable analysis of ARM core based embedded systems. The API function set includes the categories of debugger and target device controls: debugging environment and operation. To verify API applicability, we also provide example analysis tool implementations: our JTAG API could be used to build kernel function fuzzing and live memory forensics modules.

A Cost-Reliability Model for the Optimal Release Time of a Software System (결함유형에 따른 소프트웨어 신뢰도와 소프트웨어 상품화 최적 시기 전략)

  • Kim Yeong-Hwi;Lee Wan-Hyeong
    • Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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    • v.16 no.2
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    • pp.135-150
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    • 1990
  • This paper classifies faults into three types : simple, degenerated, and regenerated faults. This paper also deals with the characteristics of each type of fault to determine the software reliability based on the assumption; i. e., a system consisting of several subsystems (modules) which may be debugged simultaneously. For each type of fault, several formulas are developed to obtain the failure rate and the expected number of failures found during debugging. A model is developed based on the formulas of the failure rate and the expected number of failures to decide the optimal release time of a new software: minimizing the total cost with constraints restricting to the failure rate of each module in the software. By using this model, optimal release times are found for some cases; the eliminated faults are assumed simple faults only, regenerated faults only, simple and degenerated faults, and so on.

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A Study on the Optimum Parameter Estimation of Software Reliability (소프트웨어 신뢰도의 적정 파라미터 도출 기법에 관한 연구)

  • Che, Gyu-Shik;Moon, Myong-Ho
    • Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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    • v.13 no.4
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2006
  • Many software reliability growth models(SRGM) have been proposed since the software reliability issue was raised in 1972. The technology to estimate and grow the reliability of developing S/W to target value during testing phase were developed using them. Most of these propositions assumed the S/W debugging testing efforts be constant or even did not consider them. A few papers were presented as the software reliability evaluation considering the testing effort was important afterwards. The testing effort forms which have been presented by this kind of papers were exponential, Rayleigh, Weibull, or logistic functions, and one of these 4 types was used as a testing effort function depending on the S/W developing circumstances. I propose the methology to evaluate the SRGM using least square estimator and maximum likelihood estimator for those 4 functions, and then examine parameters applying actual data adopted from real field test of developing S/W.

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Development of an Intelligent Software Programmable Logic Controller for IEC1131-3 International Standard Languages (IEC1131-3 표준언어 처리를 위한 지능적 소프트웨어 PLC 개발)

  • Cho, Young-Im
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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    • v.14 no.2
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    • pp.207-215
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    • 2004
  • The PLC programming by IEC1131-3 is hard to handle to ordinary users as well as professionals. Also it has not a generality, so that it couldn't be debugging some logic errors easily. In order to be adapted for such environment, In this paper, I have developed the ISPLC(Intelligent Agent System based Software Programmable Logic Controller). In ISPLC system, LD programmed by a user is converted to the C code which can be used in a commercial editor such as Visual C++. The detection of logical errors in C code is more effective than PLC programming itself. ISPLC provides the GUI-based interface in web environment and an easy programming platform to such beginners as well as professionals. The study of code conversion of LD to IL as well as IL to C is firstly tried in the world as well as KOREA. To show the effectiveness of the developed system, I applied it to a practical case, a real time traffic control system. ISPLC is minimized the error debugging and programming time owing to be supported by windows application programs.

Instruction Level Resource Usage Analysis Method for Embedded Systems (임베디드 시스템에서 명령어 기반의 자원 사용 분석 방법)

  • Cho, Jae-hwang;Jung, Hun;Shin, Dong-Ha;Son, Sung-Hoon
    • Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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    • v.9 no.2
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    • pp.436-439
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    • 2005
  • As mobile computers and embedded systems are becoming popular recently, we need to study how to utilize the resources such as power, space, CPU clocks, and memory efficiently. In traditional embedded system development, we were interested in resource usage based on hardware but, as software is becoming more important, we need to study how to analyze the resource usage based on software. In this research, we propose a new method called 'Instruction Level Resource Usage Analysis Method' and implement it as a resource usage analysis tool called 'I-Debugger'. I-Debugger is constructed on three layers: debugging layer which controls the execution of software on instruction level, statistic layer which gathers real-time data and convert to useful information, and analysis layer which generate useful information to specific applications. We have applied the debugger to some simple problem and found that our method is useful in developing resource efficient embedded systems.

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A Stochastic Differential Equation Model for Software Reliability Assessment and Its Goodness-of-Fit

  • Shigeru Yamada;Akio Nishigaki;Kim, Mitsuhiro ura
    • International Journal of Reliability and Applications
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2003
  • Many software reliability growth models (SRGM's) based on a nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP) have been proposed by many researchers. Most of the SRGM's which have been proposed up to the present treat the event of software fault-detection in the testing and operational phases as a counting process. However, if the size of the software system is large, the number of software faults detected during the testing phase becomes large, and the change of the number of faults which are detected and removed through debugging activities becomes sufficiently small compared with the initial fault content at the beginning of the testing phase. Therefore, in such a situation, we can model the software fault-detection process as a stochastic process with a continuous state space. In this paper, we propose a new software reliability growth model describing the fault-detection process by applying a mathematical technique of stochastic differential equations of an Ito type. We also compare our model with the existing SRGM's in terms of goodness-of-fit for actual data sets.

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