In 2018, Aayush Jain, a graduate student at the University of California, Los Angeles, traveled to Japan to give a talk about a powerful cryptographic tool he and his colleagues were developing. As he ...

A new paper titled "Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions" may have unlocked a decades-old encryption puzzle. Is it possible to encrypt a computer program such that the code ...

Disclosure: the author of this article is involved with the Ethereum project. There have been a number of very interesting developments in cryptography in the past few years. Satoshi’s blockchain ...

The quest for unbreakable encryption may have finally succeeded. A team of researchers has created a tool capable of making any program impervious to attacks. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

First mathematically formalized in 2001, the problem defines a notion of program obfuscation called indistinguishability obfuscation (iO). Since then, the question of constructing iO with provable ...

Researchers with a DARPA-led team are looking into new ways to combat reverse engineering by using obfuscation to tidy up shoddy commercial and government security. Researchers with a DARPA-led team ...

Researchers say their new software obfuscation scheme is the first time this technique has been successfully accomplished where the underlying piece of software, such as a patch, could not be reverse ...

Cryptographic obfuscation and functional encryption have emerged as pivotal tools in contemporary cryptography, offering novel ways to secure software and data while preserving functionality. At its ...