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Cryptography

the result that no general obfuscator can make every program reveal nothing beyond black-box access to its input-output behavior.

In cryptography, impossibility of virtual black-box obfuscation refers to the result that no general obfuscator can make every program reveal nothing beyond black-box access to its input-output behavior. This meaning comes from Barak (2012) in Journal of the ACM.[1]

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Barak, B., Goldreich, O., Impagliazzo, R., Rudich, S., Sahai, A., Vadhan, S., & Yang, K. (2012). On the (im)possibility of obfuscating programs. Journal of the ACM, 59(2), 1-48. https://doi.org/10.1145/2160158.2160159

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