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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2020
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Shishir Sharma, Redmond, WA (US);
Ten Tzen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 11/30 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 21/566 (2013.01);
Abstract
Systems and methods for the mitigation of return-oriented programming are disclosed. A return address for a function is encrypted to generate an encrypted return address. The encrypted return address is stored as the return address for the function. The encrypted return address can be decrypted prior to a return instruction of the function.