Removing the Kitchen Sink from Software

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@InProceedings{Landsborough:2015:gi,

• author = "Jason Landsborough and Stephen Harding and Sunny Fugate",
• title = "Removing the Kitchen Sink from Software",
• booktitle = "Genetic Improvement 2015 Workshop",
• year = "2015",
• editor = "William B. Langdon and Justyna Petke and David R. White",
• pages = "833--838",
• address = "Madrid",
• publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
• month = "11-15 " # jul,
• organisation = "SIGEvo",
• publisher = "ACM",
• keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, Genetic Improvement, Echo, Sha1sum",
• isbn13 = "978-1-4503-3488-4",
• URL = "http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gi2015/removing_the_kitchen_sink_from_software.pdf",
• URL = "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2739482.2768424",
• DOI = "doi:10.1145/2739482.2768424",
• slides_url = "http://gpbib.cs.ucl.ac.uk/gi2015/gi_2015_slides/landsborough",
• size = "8 pages",
• abstract = "We would all benefit if software were slimmer, thinner, and generally only did what we needed and nothing more. To this end, our research team has been exploring methods for removing unused and undesirable features from compiled programs. Our primary goal is to improve software security by removing rarely used features in order to decrease a program's attack surface. This paper describes two different approaches for thinning binary programs. The first approach removes specific program features using dynamic tracing as a guide. This approach is relatively safe, but is only capable of removing code which is reachable in a trace when an undesirable feature is enabled. The second approach uses a genetic algorithm (GA) to mutate a program until a suitable variant is found. Our GA-based approach can potentially remove any code that is not strictly required for proper execution, but may break program semantics in unpredictable ways. We show results of these approaches on a toy program and real-world software and explore some of the implications for software security.",

}

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