The growing ubiquity of software systems as a means of providing critical services make protecting software contents, data, and intellectual property an important aspect of software development and a necessity for successful industrial applications. Without strong software security and protection techniques, software-based systems at the heart of medical informatics, digital rights management, voting systems, power distribution systems, transportation systems, and financial systems, to name a few, will be vulnerable to disruptive and potentially devastating attacks.

Software Security and Protection is a discipline that lies at the crossroads of security, cryptography, networks, software engineering, computer architecture, operating systems, and compiler design. This workshop, the second following the 1st Software Security and Protection Workshop July 11, 2011, Beijing, China, will provide a forum for exploring and evaluating ideas on how to protect software from tampering, reverse engineering, and piracy. Strongly encouraged are proposals of new, speculative ideas; evaluations of new or known techniques in practical settings; and discussions of emerging threats and problems in metrics, tools, and procedures for evaluating tamperproofing, watermarking, obfuscation, birthmarking, and protection algorithms in general. The papers presented in the workshop will appear in informal proceedings, distributed at the conference, and the authors will be considered as the basis for establishing an ACM Computing Surveys Symposium on Software Security and Protection, to be organized and published in 2013.

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