From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T05:10:20+09:00
Subject: Re: ZenObfuscate - for when you really really have to ship a

On Jun 16, 2006, at 14:18, Patrick Hurley wrote:

> I am not against any of these things and may likely purchase
> ZenObfuscate for our company at some point, but to base any business
> model around the purity of code (in any language, but especially
> dynamic languages) run on a clients machine is a mistake. You can take
> some baby steps to hide stuff, but the cost/benefit ratio slips
> rapidly when you try to defend against a reasonably sophisticated
> attacker.

I went to a great talk a short while back:

On the Impossibility of Obfuscation
Shafi Goldwasser, MIT

abstract: http://www.lfcs.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/milner-lecture/2006.html

Sorry, for those of you interested in the nitty-gritty theoretical  
bits, but I'm not aware of any sort of video or audio or anything  
from the talk.

matthew smillie.