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motohagiographytoday at 12:34 AM1 replyview on HN

slight historical note, it might be interesting to see how the brief period of "white box cryptography" stands up to AI today. At the time there were a few companies with products that had trouble finding fit (for straightforward security reasons) but they were essentially commercial obfuscators that made heavy use of lookup tables, miniature virtual machines, and esolang concepts that worked mainly against human reverse engineers.

An example was this early AES proposal: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-36492-7_17


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Retr0idtoday at 12:46 AM

Whitebox cryptography is widely deployed, in browser plugins for DRM.