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Binary Static Previrtualization

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-13-P-1084
Agency Tracking Number: N131-061-0524
Amount: $79,881.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N131-061
Solicitation Number: 2013.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2013
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-05-15
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-03-07
Small Business Information
421 SW Sixth Suite 300
Portland, OR 97204
United States
DUNS: 098009918
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Joe Hendrix
 Principal Investigator
 (503) 808-7213
 jhendrix@galois.com
Business Contact
 Jodee LeRoux
Title: Contracts
Phone: (503) 808-7209
Email: jodee@galois.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Modular software development helps enable application developers to quickly write sophisticated applications. However, in most instances only a small fraction of the functionality included in a particular software components is needed. Not only is there a performance cost, but the prevalence of security vulnerabilities suggests that even unused functionality in binaries and shared libraries can be dangerous. To address the problem of extraneous functionality, SRI International has developed, static previrtualization, a static analysis and code specialization technique that uses partial evaluation to remove unused functionality. SRI has developed a prototype tool, Occam, that performs static previrtualization on LLVM bytecode. Galois proposes to work with SRI to extend Occam to support static previrtualization of binaries. Galois will develop a binary disassembler capable of generating LLVM bytecode from binary machine code. This will allow Occam and other LLVM-based optimization tools to be applied to existing compiled machine code. This will make it easier for static previrtualization to be adopted in industry, and facilitate applying previrtualization to entire systems.

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