Hopes, Fears and Software Obfuscation: A Survey

Boaz Barak

Abstract

I survey some of the recent progress on software obfuscation spurred by the exciting paper of Garg, Gentry, Halevi, Raykova, Sahai and Waters (FOCS 2013). This is a preprint version of a review article~ appearing in the Communications of the ACM. That article was written for a general computing audience, and is also not up to date on the latest research in this fast-moving field since it was mostly written in 2014. Nevertheless, I thought it might still be of interest to cryptographers.

Available format(s)
Category
Foundations
Publication info
Published elsewhere. MINOR revision.Communications of the ACM
DOI
10.1145/2757276
Keywords
Obfuscationsurvey
Contact author(s)
b @ boazbarak org
History
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/210

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/210,
author = {Boaz Barak},
title = {Hopes, Fears and Software Obfuscation: A Survey},
howpublished = {Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2016/210},
year = {2016},
doi = {10.1145/2757276},
note = {\url{https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/210}},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/210}
}

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