Cdoe Obofsucaitn: Securing Software from Within
Marc Beunardeau, Aisling Connolly, Rémi Géraud, David Naccache · IEEE Security & Privacy · 2016
A major cryptographic breakthrough in 2013 led to a candidate for a cryptographic construction: indistinguishability obfuscation.1 For the first time, a potential formal basis for code obfuscation was within reach. This sparked a spate of publications on the topic. However, despite the excitement, researchers encountered many technical challenges; for example, practical implementation of the proposed obfuscation was excruciatingly slow and not nearly as secure as hoped. But these papers generated a good starting point, community-wide excitement, and new determination motivated as much by overcoming scientific challenges as by the need for program obfuscation.