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ShadowGuard: Cryptographic Shadow Stack Protection with XOR Obfuscation and HMAC Integrity

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: A return address protection system using shadow stacks with dual XOR obfuscation and HMAC-SHA256 integrity checks. This project implements a runtime return addresses protection mechanism using: A shadow stack Dual XOR-based return address obfuscation HMAC-SHA256 integrity checks Memory page protection via mmap() and mprotect() It integrates with LLVM as a FunctionPass and includes a C-based runtime linked at compile-time.

Source: Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.16875276

Author: ILAHI, Sirine

Institution: University of Passau

Language: English

Topic: Security and Verification in Computing

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6949885293

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