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Jun 17, 2020 at 9:38 history edited CommunityBot
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Nov 13, 2010 at 17:10 vote accept Alex ten Brink
Nov 12, 2010 at 22:42 comment added Kaveh @Ross,Sadeq: Some of the authors visit the site from time to time, hopefully they will notice the tag. Having the question on the featured questions pages might also help.
Nov 12, 2010 at 7:59 comment added Sadeq Dousti @Ross: Yeah, I would like other researchers in the field to comment as well...
Nov 12, 2010 at 5:08 comment added Ross Snider Could a researcher in the field (or one of the impressive names from the authors list) comment?
Nov 12, 2010 at 5:06 comment added Ross Snider It's my understanding that these results only apply to the "old" (unsuccessful) model of obfuscation using virtual black boxes, and that now the researchers in the field are looking to adopt a weaker notion of obfuscation with the hope some guarantees can be had. One of the research directions is to adopt Fully Homomorphic Encryption, and so I would say that the question is open. I remember sitting in on a talk from Microsoft Research this summer about fixed point obfuscators and virtual black boxes where the researcher made exactly this point.
Nov 12, 2010 at 0:29 comment added Alex ten Brink Well, that kind of puts a dampener on things. I just read how they proved their results: I was particularly baffled when I read that the obfuscator is assumed to have access to the source code of the adversarial program! (though I could just have misunderstood the paper)
Nov 11, 2010 at 11:29 history answered Sadeq Dousti CC BY-SA 2.5