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

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.

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2025-08-14
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16875276
Primary Topic
Security and Verification in Computing
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ShadowGuard: Cryptographic Shadow Stack Protection with XOR Obfuscation and HMAC Integrity

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Security and Verification in Computing
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ShadowGuard: Cryptographic Shadow Stack Protection with XOR Obfuscation and HMAC Integrity

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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.

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
University of Passau (DE)
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Security and Verification in Computing
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