Indistinguishability Obfuscation From Well-studied Assumptions

Software Obfuscation Is In Cryptography To Transform Source Code To Make It Unintelligible Without Altering What It Computes. As A Software Security Mechanism, It Is Essential That Software Obfuscation Has A Firm Mathematical Foundation.the Research Described In This Book, For Which The Author Won The Acm Dissertation Award, Establishes The Feasibility Of Mathematically Rigorous Software Obfuscation From Well-studied Hardness Conjectures. The Mathematical Object That The Author Constructs, Indistinguishability Obfuscation, Is Considered A Theoretical Master Tool In The Context Of Cryptography: Not Only In Helping To Achieve Long-desired Cryptographic Goals Such As Functional Encryption, But Also In Expanding The Scope Of The Field Of Cryptography Itself.