Spun out of the University of Maryland, SecondWrite LLC has licensed the first static binary rewriting technology that rewrites binaries without relocation of symbolic information of any kind. Principals of the firm are developing products for application performance management (APM) and security. Designed to build next generation tools for updating desktop applications available in binary code, the software provides wholesale recompilation of the binary including re-doing register allocation, instruction selection, etc. Thus, binaries are rewritten without relocation and symbolic information permits those other than the original software developers to rewrite the binaries. The resulting advantages of this novel static binary rewriter are rewriting 100% of binary code with relatively no run-time increase, enforcing security on untrustworthy program codes, bypassing malicious codes hidden in the software, and rewriting obfuscated binary code, thereby preventing against future obfuscator use.
