The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third party,” but ...

Vitalik Buterin says obfuscation could improve blockchain privacy, but current runtimes remain too slow for practical use.

In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

The ease at which criminals can reverse engineer software makes for lucrative transgressions with national security implications, prompting government-backed researchers to seek innovations to shore ...

Researchers with a DARPA-led team are looking into new ways to combat reverse engineering by using obfuscation to tidy up shoddy commercial and government security. Researchers with a DARPA-led team ...

Given enough computer power, desire, brains and some luck, the security of most systems can be broken. But there are cryptographic and algorithmic security techniques, ideas and concepts out there ...

As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a “zero-knowledge” proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing ...

Program obfuscation aims to compile a program to make it unintelligible in order to hide the logic and knowledge in the original program. Methods for program obfuscation have been long sought-after in ...