Rewriting x86 Binaries

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Many PEs, Such Secure, Wow. Binary code from untrusted sources remains one of the primary vehicles for software propagation and malicious software attacks. All previous work to mitigate such attacks requires code-producer cooperation, has significant deployment issues, or incurs a high performance penalty. The problem of accurate static x86 disassembly without metadata is provably undecidable, and is regarded by many as uncircumventable.