When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
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When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
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Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#2Maybe we can use this method to find Satoshi, if he uses github.
Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#3Don't miss the talk by Aylin starting in 50 minutes here:
http://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/hallg/
(Recording available later ...)
Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#4Well, this puts a damper on my plan to create a secret identity on the internet under which I release software the way Banksy releases art.
Unless I stop publicly writing software for a few years.
Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#5Really neat, especially since the source could be from different languages and compilers. I'd be interested at the deanonymization accuracy within the Go language where there is a widespread adoption of the code formatting tool and seeing if that has any impact.
Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#6Maybe we can use this method to find Satoshi, if he uses github.
That was the first thing that came to my mind too :)
Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#7Maybe we can use this method to find Satoshi, if he uses github.
Leaving aside that finding Satoshi isn't a particularly laudable goal, isn't the original Bitcoin client open source? It's almost certainly easier to detect programming style from source code than from binaries.
Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#8Don't miss the talk by Aylin starting in 50 minutes here: http://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/hallg/ (Recording available later ...)
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Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#9Interesting but if your code is open source a lot of people will be contributing to it bringing in their own style.
Depending on how popular the code is your fingerprint could be completely hidden amongst hundreds.
Re: When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
#10Well, this puts a damper on my plan to create a secret identity on the internet under which I release software the way Banksy releases art. Unless I stop publicly writing software for a few years.
My suspicion is that most of these features wouldn't survive in an adversarial setting -- either by consciously changing your coding style or (better) using automated tools to rewrite your source code before compilation to alter the control flow structure (e.g., control flow flattening [1]).
http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2221/w...