A New Design for Cryptography’s Black Box
In July 2013, a pair of studies set the cryptography world on fire. The studies described a powerful new method for hiding the secrets inside software programs. The method was called “indistinguishability obfuscation,” or IO. The authors touted it as a “central hub” for all of cryptography — a unified basis upon which to reconstruct familiar cryptographic tools like public keys and selectively secure signatures. Now proposals are getting closer to reality.

September 13, 2015 at 03:01PM
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