Abstract: A method of software article protection and transformation includes: retrieving a software article; identifying control flow addressing associated with the software article; removing at least a portion of the control flow addressing; and saving the at least a portion of the control flow addressing from the software article, wherein removing the at least a portion of the control flow addressing comprises replacing call and return functions with protected execution instructions, wherein the protected execution instructions replace call functions by: identifying, in a lookup table, an entry associated with a current instruction; and pushing a return address associated with the current instruction to a secure return stack; and wherein the protected execution instructions replace return functions by: popping the return address from the secure return stack; encrypting the at least a portion of the control flow addressing; and saving the at least a portion of the control flow addressing to a separate software articl

Abstract: A method of software protection and transformation includes: retrieving a software article; identifying control flow addressing associated with the software article; removing at least a portion of the control flow addressing; and saving the at least a portion of the control flow addressing to a separate software article. A protected software article generated by: retrieving a software article; removing at least one control flow instruction from the software article and adding remaining instructions to the protected software article; adding the control flow instruction to a protected execution (PE) file; and storing the protected software article and the PE file. A method of managing control flow instructions to provide protected execution of a software article includes: receiving a PE instruction; fetching a base address associated with the software article; fetching a program counter instruction address; and looking up a table entry based on the base address and an offset.