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Advocating "Obscurity Pockets" Part III. Code Obfuscation Basics.

February 14, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Obfuscating Code

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C++ is by far the king when it comes to producing obfuscated code.

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inlines and C++ templates are helping to obfuscate things very efficiently

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Advocating “Obscurity Pockets” as a Complement to Security. Part II. Deployment Scenarios, More Crypto-Primitives, and Obscurity-Pocket-As-Security

February 7, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Hacker hit by Obscurity

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In other words – such an Obscured RNG would protect us from Debian RNG disaster(!)

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such a protocol (if properly deployed on the Server Side) – would defeat Heartbleed too (even if all the details of the Client are known)

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Advocating “Obscurity Pockets” as a Complement to Security. Part I. Definition and Benefits.

January 31, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

He was preaching Security-by-Obscurity

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In a hypothetical world where attackers would need to create a unique attack script for each system attacked – such an economy would be a non-starter.

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If all the people would be the same - pandemics such as Black Death would easily take the whole humankind down; it is diversity among humans which allowed us to survive.

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FWIW: I’m speaking at ACCU conference on Apr 24th in Bristol, UK

January 26, 2017 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Just to inform everybody who might be interested: I am going to speak at ACCU conference, which will be held on Apr 25-29, 2017 in Bristol, UK. My presentation titled “Deterministic Components for Interactive Distributed Systems: Benefits and Implementation”, is scheduled on Apr 24th, at 2pm. The presentation is going to cover determinism benefits (from production post-mortem

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