code-lift

English

Verb

code-lift (third-person singular simple present code-lifts, present participle code-lifting, simple past and past participle code-lifted)

1. (computing) To copy an entire function without understanding it to use outside a secured system
   • 2022, Romain Thomas, “DroidGuard: A Deep Dive into SafetyNet”, in SSTIC‎^[1]:

     I decided to address all the encoding layers of DroidGuard through code lifting

   • 2017 August 22, “Assessing Software Protection Schemes”, in OWASP Mobile Security Testing Guide‎^[2]:

     a white-box implementation is besides the point if the attacker can easily code-lift the white-box as a whole

Usage notes

Not to be confused with the programming or category theory sense of lifting.