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Hiding Secrets in Software: A Cryptographic Approach to Program Obfuscation.

Can we hide secrets in software? Can we obfuscate programs-- that is, make programs unintelligible while preserving their functionality? What exactly do we mean by "unintelligible"? Why would we even want to do this? In this article, we describe some rigorous cryptographic answers to these quasi-phi...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 59; no. 5; pp. 113 - 121
Main Authors: Garg, Sanjam, Gentry, Craig, Halevi, Shai, Raykova, Mariana, Sahai, Amit, Waters, Brent
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery May2016
Subjects:
Computer software security
Computer security software
Cryptography
Data encryption
Computer security
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:Can we hide secrets in software? Can we obfuscate programs-- that is, make programs unintelligible while preserving their functionality? What exactly do we mean by "unintelligible"? Why would we even want to do this? In this article, we describe some rigorous cryptographic answers to these quasi-philosophical questions. We also discuss our recent "candidate indistinguishability obfuscation" scheme and its implications.