Armouring the ELF, Phrack Magazine #58

Крайне любопытную идею встретил, читая Armouring the ELF: Binary encryption on the UNIX platform by grugq and scut:

The following is a short list of encryption methods that have been used to protect the main object code of the executable:
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• Virtual CPUs: A painstaking and powerful method of securing a binary. The object code actually runs on a virual CPU that needs to be independantly analysed first. Very painful for a reverse engineer (and also the developer).

Весьма увлечен, отправляюсь на поиски примеров реализации такого подхода...