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Diversifying the Software Stack Using Randomized NOP Insertion

Todd Jackson,Andrei Homescu,3 Authors,M. Franz

2013 · DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5416-8_8
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TLDR

An in-depth performance analysis of the design space of introducing artificial diversity, randomly inserting non-alignment NOP instructions is presented, observing that this technique has a moderate performance impact and demonstrates its real world applicability by diversifying a full system stack.