Re: [funsec] Obfuscation = cryptography?

2014-02-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 03 Feb 2014 16:28:28 -0800, Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah said: OK, I'll admit that the math in this type of paper is completely beyond me. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/cryptography-breakthrough/ But, hasn't he, or any of his friends, paid any attention to

Re: [funsec] Obfuscation = cryptography?

2014-02-04 Thread Nick FitzGerald
Valdis wrote: 2) The debugging hit. It's hard enough to figure out why software crapped out - this would make it even harder. Tsk, tsk... They will implement a provably correct VM so that the obfuscation layer can necessarily be disregarded! You know, like Sun did with Java... /funsec

[funsec] Obfuscation = cryptography?

2014-02-03 Thread Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon Hannah
OK, I'll admit that the math in this type of paper is completely beyond me. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/cryptography-breakthrough/ But, hasn't he, or any of his friends, paid any attention to malware in the past two decades? There is plenty of obfuscation out there. (Most of it