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by Andoryuuta
1581 days ago
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While I think you are right about devirtualization being used to mean that in the world of compilers, in the realm of code protection/obfuscation, obfuscating code by making in run in an embedded virtual machine is called virtualization, with the reverse being called devirtualization. It's hard to put a exact date on the origin of "[de]virtualization" being used to refer to code obfuscation, but it's definitely been used since at _least_ 2007 in related academia. [0], [0]: Kang, Min Gyung, Pongsin Poosankam, and Heng Yin. "Renovo: A hidden code extractor for packed executables." Proceedings of the 2007 ACM workshop on Recurring malcode. 2007 |
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