Auditable Obfuscation

Shalini Banerjee; Steven D. Galbraith

Paper 2023/1476

Auditable Obfuscation

Shalini Banerjee

, University of Auckland

Steven D. Galbraith

, University of Auckland

Abstract

We introduce a new variant of malicious obfuscation. Our formalism is incomparable to the existing definitions by Canetti and Varia (TCC 2010), Canetti et al. (EUROCRYPT 2022) and Badrinarayanan et al. (ASIACRYPT 2016). We show that this concept is natural and applicable to obfuscation-as-a-service platforms. We next define a new notion called auditable obfuscation which provides security against malicious obfuscation. Finally, we construct a proof of concept of the developed notions based on well-studied theoretical obfuscation proposals.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Foundations
Publication info: Preprint.
Keywords: program obfuscation verifiable obfuscation
Contact author(s): shalini banerjee @ auckland ac nz
s galbraith @ auckland ac nz
History: 2023-09-27: approved; 2023-09-26: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2023/1476
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2023/1476,
      author = {Shalini Banerjee and Steven D. Galbraith},
      title = {Auditable Obfuscation},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2023/1476},
      year = {2023},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1476}
}