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Developing secure software is a challenge. Writing really secure software is a real challenge.
Here are the articles which touch different security aspects of software, from “what cipher suites are not to be used with TLS”, to certain more or less novel things under ‘Security Research’ subcategory.

All Rants on Security, page 2:

Bot Fighting 201: Declarative Data+Code Obfuscation with Build-Time Polymorphism in C++

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Quote: “Technically, what we’re looking for here, is any kind of bijection; we’ll use this bijection to convert our data from one representation into another one (and as it is a bijection, we can revert it later).”
Another Quote: “As we’re not writing our obf<> classes manually (instead, we have a code generator doing it for us on each build), the sky is the limit to the obfuscations we can generate.”
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Bot Fighting 103. Code Integrity Checks, Code Scrambling

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Quote: “Bingo! We’ve got an executable, which automagically performs TONS of integrity checks, which checks are spread all over the executable, and are extremely non-obvious too.”
Another Quote: “This approach of ‘not revealing code until attack costs are high’ is certainly not limited to payments.”
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Bot Fighting 102: System-Specific Kinda-Protection. Anti-Debugger, Anti-DLL-Injection, VM Detection.

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Quote: “it is fundamentally impossible to prevent (or detect) debugging, at least as long we’re staying on one single box.”
Another Quote: “DON’T spend more than 10% of your overall anti-bot-fighting time budget on system-specific protections.”
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Bot Fighting 101: Don’t Feed the Hacker

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Quote: “Some of the system calls are not absolutely necessary, and using them will significantly simplify life of the attacker”
Another Quote: “Scrambling will help to protect your protocol even if the attacker manages to F.L.I.R.T. with your TLS library”
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