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The current state of art in program obfuscations: definitions of obfuscation security

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Program obfuscation is a semantic-preserving transformation aimed at bringing a program into a form that impedes understanding of its algorithm and data structures or prevents extracting certain valuable information from the text of the program. Since obfuscation may find wide use in computer security, information hiding and cryptography, security requirements to program obfuscators have become a major focus of interest in the theory of software obfuscation starting from the pioneering works in this field. In this paper we give a survey of various definitions of obfuscation security and basic results that establish possibility or impossibility of secure program obfuscation under certain cryptographic assumptions.

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Varnovskiy, N.P., Zakharov, V.A., Kuzyurin, N.N. et al. The current state of art in program obfuscations: definitions of obfuscation security. Program Comput Soft 41, 361–372 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0361768815060079

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