Timeline for What are the differences Between “White-Box Cryptography” and “Code Obfuscation”?
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| S Mar 13, 2023 at 0:56 | history | suggested | tari | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Point dead link to an archived version. |
| Mar 13, 2023 at 0:31 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Mar 13, 2023 at 0:56 | |||||
| Dec 22, 2015 at 20:37 | comment | added | D.W. | @NeilSmithline, everything I wrote still seems valid. There have of course been new results and new developments in obfuscation since then, but nothing that invalidates my answer, as far as I know. For instance, you might enjoy reading about indistinguishability obfuscation. | |
| Dec 22, 2015 at 20:25 | comment | added | Neil Smithline | @D.W. - It's 4.5 years later. Does your answer need any updating or has the state basically stayed the same? Thanks! | |
| Apr 10, 2015 at 23:37 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| Apr 10, 2015 at 23:56 | |||||
| Aug 14, 2011 at 9:20 | comment | added | MByD | BTW, regarding the last link - that's exactly where my question came from... | |
| Aug 13, 2011 at 19:03 | vote | accept | MByD | ||
| Aug 12, 2011 at 22:15 | comment | added | D.W. | @MbyD, yes, that seems about right. In the broadest sense, white-box cryptography is a goal (a security notion we might want to achieve). There have also been some proposed schemes/algorithms for achieving this goal. I'm frequently guilty of conflating "goal" and "scheme", partly because the original papers introducing the concept both defined the general goal and then proposed some schemes intended to achieve that goal. I suspect I've caused confusion by my sloppy use of "white-box cryptography" for both goal and a particular scheme intended to achieve that goal; sorry about that. | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 20:31 | comment | added | MByD | do you mean white-box cryptography is not a specific method, but some approach? Or some key hiding methods will be considered white-box cryptography and some won't? | |
| Aug 12, 2011 at 20:20 | history | answered | D.W. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |