Program Obfuscation: Foundations and Applications

拟议的研究是一项为期3年的单一研究者提案，涉及一个学术牵头机构（MIT）和一家技术公司（IBM）的人员参与。拟议研究的学术价值在于，它将拓宽我们对代码可以做什么的基本理解，而不是对代码的黑箱访问。拟议研究的更广泛影响将通过PI和高级人员来实现传播在期刊出版物、公开会议和研讨会上获得的知识和理解，教授计算理论、密码学和网络安全方面的研究生和本科生课程。最后，研究小组的两名成员，包括PI，是妇女。

The proposed investigation is a 3 year single investigator proposal involving an academic lead institution (MIT) and participation by personnel from a technology company (IBM).The intellectual merit of the proposed research is that it will broaden our foundational understanding of what can be done with code in contrast with black box access to code.The broader impact of the proposed research will be through the PI and senior personnel disseminating the knowledge and understanding gained in journal publications, public conference and workshop presentations, and teaching graduate level and undergraduate level courses in theory of computation, cryptography, and network security. Finally, two members of the research team, including the PI, are women.