Timeline for Practical consequences of using functional encryption for software obfuscation
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Aug 6, 2013 at 20:13 | answer | added | mikeazo | timeline score: 9 | |
Aug 2, 2013 at 0:36 | vote | accept | Henrick Hellström | ||
Jul 31, 2013 at 21:32 | answer | added | Mikero | timeline score: 12 | |
Jul 31, 2013 at 10:56 | comment | added | Samuel Neves | There's nothing practical about that paper. Notice the use of multilinear maps and fully homomorphic encryption. I suspect this will only be practical when FHE is also practical. | |
Jul 31, 2013 at 9:51 | comment | added | Henrick Hellström | @CodesInChaos: AVs might be an issue anyway, at least from a commercial point of view, because a significant fraction of ISV consumers would probably never install ISV software on a platform that isn't protected by AV software. However, I am not entirely sure this is an issue, considering that software obfuscation still can't hide certain detectable behavior, such as potentially harmful OS API calls. | |
Jul 31, 2013 at 9:11 | comment | added | CodesInChaos | @rath AVs are practically irrelevant for keeping your computer secure. The only reason for having them is to avoid the accusation of negligence for not having one. | |
Jul 31, 2013 at 8:48 | history | edited | Henrick Hellström | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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Jul 31, 2013 at 2:45 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackCrypto/status/362403627274469376 | ||
Jul 30, 2013 at 23:30 | comment | added | rath |
The researchers said their mathematical obfuscation mechanism can be used to protect intellectual property by preventing the theft of new algorithms and by hiding the vulnerability a software patch is designed to repair when the patch is distributed. which means all obfuscated software are potential malware. But really, wouldn't that technique make AVs practically irrelevant? I think the article is available here
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Jul 30, 2013 at 23:14 | history | asked | Henrick Hellström | CC BY-SA 3.0 |