Stephen D Cagle

US Patent:

6742177, May 25, 2004

Filed:

Mar 31, 2000

Appl. No.:

09/540960

Inventors:

Stephen B. Cagle - Coral Springs FL
Richard L. Spagna - Boca Raton FL

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 944

US Classification:

717124

Abstract:

A method to debug application interface calls made to a tamper-resistant software module. The method comprises the steps of: loading a first application to be debugged using a debugging application, wherein the application makes one or more function calls to a tamper-resistant software module. A debugger application for symbolically debugging the first application is run and the debugger application with an initialization file that performs the steps of: loading a client application running a client socket service; loading a server application running a server socket service; loading the tamper-resistant software module with one or more function calls made thereto by the first application. The client application translates the one or more function calls made to the tamper-resistant software module during the running of the debugger application into socket calls and returns any status received from the socket calls to the first application. The server application translates the one or more function calls made to the tamper-resistant software module that are received via socket calls from the client application into function calls into the tamper-resistance software module and returning any status received back from the function calls into socket calls for receipt for the server application. In an alternate embodiment, a computer readable medium and system is disclosed that corresponds to the method above.