From: Matthew Smillie <M.B.Smillie@...>
Date: 2006-06-17T07:09:46+09:00
Subject: Re: ZenObfuscate - for when you really really have to ship a


On Jun 16, 2006, at 21:10, Matthew Smillie wrote:

> 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.

But there is a paper:
http://www.mit.edu/~tauman/obfuscation.pdf

matthew smillie.