Tamper-proofing with self-modifying code: threat model, security and necessity of the assumptions
Formalizes Gregory Morse and Tamas Kozsik's paper "Tamper-Proofing with Self-Modifying Code" (arXiv:2604.12407v1). The selected statement (PalomarSMT.mathematical_result, four results T1-T4) is an abstract threat model for checksum units whose opcode state lives in the memory they checksum: a system of units with regions and code, a timeline of write, execute, check, split-view and DMA events, adversary levels L0-L4, a cost contract with lower bounds on emulation, forgery and mediation, and eight structural assumptions A1-A8 (none of the form "the attacker is detected"). An effective alarm…
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