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Better Security Through Obfuscation: The quest to find greater security through obscurity.

The article discusses efforts by computer scientists and mathematicians to improve computer security and privacy by hiding the interior mechanisms of computer software via indistinguishability obfuscation (iO). It describes the functions of iO, breakthroughs in iO research, and a potential method of...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 64; no. 8; pp. 13 - 16
Main Author: Edwards, Chris
Format: Article
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Aug2021
Subjects:
Computer software development
Data privacy
Computer security
Computer programming
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:The article discusses efforts by computer scientists and mathematicians to improve computer security and privacy by hiding the interior mechanisms of computer software via indistinguishability obfuscation (iO). It describes the functions of iO, breakthroughs in iO research, and a potential method of iO implementation and delivery.