Paper 2014/779
Implementing Cryptographic Program Obfuscation
Daniel Apon, Yan Huang, Jonathan Katz, and Alex J. Malozemoff
Abstract
Program obfuscation is the process of making a program "unintelligible" without changing the program's underlying input/output behavior. Although there is a long line of work on heuristic techniques for obfuscation, such approaches do not provide any cryptographic guarantee on their effectiveness. A recent result by Garg et al. (FOCS 2013), however, shows that cryptographic program obfuscation is indeed possible based on a new primitive called a \emph{graded encoding scheme}. In this work, we present the first implementation of such an obfuscator. We describe several challenges and optimizations we made along the way, present a detailed evaluation of our implementation, and discuss research problems that need to be addressed before such obfuscators can be used in practice.
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Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Category
- Implementation
- Publication info
- Preprint. MINOR revision.
- Keywords
- obfuscation
- Contact author(s)
- amaloz @ cs umd edu
- History
- 2015-02-10: revised
- 2014-10-05: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2014/779
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2014/779,
author = {Daniel Apon and Yan Huang and Jonathan Katz and Alex J. Malozemoff},
title = {Implementing Cryptographic Program Obfuscation},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2014/779},
year = {2014},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/779}
}
