Nxp B.v.

Phillippe Teuwen

Jan Hoogerbrugge

Wil Michiels

Frank Michaud

Peter Rombouts

A method of obscuring software code including a plurality of basic blocks wherein the basic blocks have an associated identifier (ID), including: determining, by a processor, for a first basic block first predecessor basic blocks, wherein first predecessor basic blocks jump to the first basic block and the first basic block jumps to a next basic block based upon a next basic block ID; producing, by the processor, a mask value based upon the IDs of first predecessor basic blocks, wherein the mask value identifies common bits of the IDs of the first predecessor basic blocks; and inserting, by the processor, an instruction in the first basic block to determine a next basic block ID based upon the mask value and an ID of one of the first predecessor basic blocks.

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Phillippe Teuwen