Practical implementations of program obfuscators for point functions
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
9-13-2016
Abstract
Point function obfuscators have recently been shown to be the first examples of program obfuscators provable under hardness assumptions commonly used in cryptography. This is remarkable, in light of early results in this area, showing impossibility of a single obfuscation solution for all programs. Point functions can be seen as functions that return 1 if the input value is equal to a secret value stored in the program, and 0 otherwise. In this paper, we select representative point function obfuscators from the literature, state their theoretical guarantees, and report on their (slightly) optimized implementations. We show that implementations of point function obfuscators, satisfying different obfuscation notions, can be used with practical performance guarantees. Notable implementation results due to our design and coding optimizations are: (a) very fast obfuscators based on group theory, and (b) obfuscators based on lattice theory with running time < 8s, using inexpensive computing resources.
Identifier
84991734870 (Scopus)
ISBN
[9781509020881]
Publication Title
2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing and Simulation Hpcs 2016
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCSim.2016.7568371
First Page
460
Last Page
467
Recommended Citation
Di Crescenzo, Giovanni; Bahler, Lisa; Coan, Brian; Polyakov, Yuriy; Rohloff, Kurt; and Cousins, David B., "Practical implementations of program obfuscators for point functions" (2016). Faculty Publications. 10277.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/10277
