Editing Obfuscation (software) (section)

=== Cryptographic ===
{{Further information|Indistinguishability obfuscation|Black-box obfuscation}}
Cryptographers have explored the idea of obfuscating code so that reverse-engineering the code is ''cryptographically'' hard. This is formalized in the many proposals for [[indistinguishability obfuscation]], a cryptographic primitive that, if possible to build securely, would allow one to construct many other kinds of cryptography, including completely novel types that no one knows how to make. (A stronger notion, [[black-box obfuscation]], is known to be impossible in general.)<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable |url=https://www.wired.com/2014/02/cryptography-breakthrough/ |magazine=Wired |language=en-us |issn=1059-1028 |access-date=2021-03-14 |archive-date=April 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414061648/https://www.wired.com/2014/02/cryptography-breakthrough/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jain |first1=Aayush |last2=Lin |first2=Huijia |author2-link=Huijia (Rachel) Lin|last3=Sahai |first3=Amit |date=2020 |title=Indistinguishability Obfuscation from Well-Founded Assumptions |url=https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1003 |journal=Cryptology ePrint Archive |arxiv=2008.09317 |access-date=March 14, 2021 |archive-date=March 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303200221/https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1003 |url-status=live }}</ref>