The Ethereum co-founder says indistinguishability obfuscation could one day act like a “trustless trusted third party,” but today’s versions remain far too slow for real use. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin is publishing a technical series on program obfuscation, which he calls the most powerful idea in cryptography even though it is far from practical use. Obfuscation, and specifically indistinguishability obfuscation, aims to hide how code works rather than the data it processes, potentia…
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