Thwarting Piracy: Anti-debugging Using GPU-assisted Self-healing Codes. (arXiv:2210.11047v1 [cs.CR])

Software piracy is one of the concerns in the IT sector. Pirates leverage the
debugger tools to reverse engineer the logic that verifies the license keys or
bypass the entire verification process. Anti-debugging techniques are used to
defeat piracy using self-healing codes. However, anti-debugging methods can be
defeated when the licensing protections are limited to CPU-based implementation
by writing custom codes to deactivate the anti-debugging methods. In the paper,
we demonstrate how GPU implementation can prevent pirates from deactivating the …

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