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Obfuscation: Building the Final Boss of Cryptography

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/06/29/obfuscation1.html
5•ilreb•1h ago

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p4bl0•15m ago
I really don't understand that some people are still trying to sell blockchain-based electronic voting. But anyway, I just wanted to tell a fun anecdote about the impossibility of making an obfuscater that works for any arbitrary program, or rather, since this is trivial for Quines [1], that it is possible to protect any program from obfuscation by making a simili-Quine of it. Given a program P, it is possible to construct a program Q(P) that takes an additional optional boolean input that defaults to false and which, when this additional input is false (i.e., by default), behaves exactly like the program P, but when called with the additional input set to true, acts as a Quine instead of executing P, thus outputs the source code for Q(P) (which is constructed to includes P's source code). This is guaranteed to work basically because an obfuscater cannot change the behavior of a program without breaking indistinguishability. I remember having a lot of fun working on that as an undergrad a long time ago [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_(computing)

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2011/497.pdf

SpecManager – a full agile team for founders, as a Claude Code plugin

https://github.com/joanseg/specmanager
1•joansg•6m ago•0 comments

Understanding Android's Project Treble, Project Mainline, APK Signature Schemes

https://medium.com/@Max_Sir/understanding-androids-project-treble-project-mainline-and-apk-signat...
1•thunderbong•6m ago•0 comments

Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/why-did-this-journal-retract-two-1940s-papers-by-max-planck/
3•DR_MING•7m ago•0 comments

Life After Oligarchy

https://www.commonweal.scot/articles/magazine-zrell
1•robtherobber•7m ago•1 comments

War at the Final Frontier

https://medium.com/@firstfromreverse/war-at-the-final-frontier-2f9af096a297
1•WishingWisp•9m ago•0 comments

N8n Docker Compose stack with secrets, TLS, and a 16-check validator

https://github.com/empostigo/n8n-compose-field-guide
1•44_88•11m ago•1 comments

OctoPerf MCP – drive load tests from any LLM (OAuth 2.1, no API key)

https://api.octoperf.com/doc/mcp/
1•Jellly•12m ago•0 comments

Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach (9th Ed): Online Video Presentations

https://gaia.cs.umass.edu/kurose_ross/lectures.php
1•teleforce•17m ago•0 comments

Create sandboxed rich-text telegram agents with a single config file

https://github.com/montyanderson/007
2•montyanderson•20m ago•0 comments

The Race to Reliable Visual Understanding

https://cacm.acm.org/news/the-race-to-reliable-visual-understanding/
2•visha1v•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Closedtab: a shared record for human-agent teams

https://www.npmjs.com/package/closedtab
1•omnivore•24m ago•0 comments

About Latency-focused disk benchmarks for Linux VPS environments

https://github.com/haydenjames/VPS-Disk-Latency-Bench
2•ashitlerferad•24m ago•0 comments

Context engineering for analytics agents: six months of building and rebuilding

https://blog.getcassis.com/context-engineering-for-analytics-agents/
1•matthieu_bl•24m ago•0 comments

Kog Laneformer 2B: The Latency-First Model Behind Kog Inference Engine

https://blog.kog.ai/kog-laneformer-2b-the-latency-first-model-behind-kog-inference-engine/
1•thomasjb•25m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Claude Code plugin to draw feedback and send it back into the session

https://github.com/tomreinert/claude-annotate
1•tom2948329494•27m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Jerkarator (SFW): award-winning axial electromagnetic generator

https://github.com/rmit-wgbowley/Isopod
1•wgbowley•30m ago•2 comments

2026 GPU Price Report

https://cast.ai/reports/gpu-price-report/
3•BlackPlot•32m ago•2 comments

Using Local Coding Agents

https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/using-local-coding-agents
4•mariuz•34m ago•1 comments

ProtonVPN is AI support only. 4 days no human, made me BOTNET. Begging for help

2•protonisafk•34m ago•1 comments

SimpleX: A messaging platform with no user identifiers

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat
2•mpfect•36m ago•0 comments

The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/06/ai-open-ai-anthropic/687689/
1•cplan•40m ago•2 comments

GPT-5.5 Instant (June 2026) Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis

https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/gpt-5-5-instant-06-26
3•theanonymousone•43m ago•0 comments

Towards Automating Scientific Review with Google's Paper Assistant Tool

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.28277
1•ilreb•43m ago•0 comments

Transformations

https://jauzo.com/2026/06/28/transformation/
1•kukkeliskuu•44m ago•1 comments

Linkedout: See how much data LinkedIn has on you

https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/linkedout
4•hanifbbz•46m ago•1 comments

Metamorphic testing with Lean4-verified mutations finds compiler miscompilations

https://nowarp.io/blog/compiler-testing-part-2/
1•jubnzv_•46m ago•0 comments

HorseWood Reviews USA: Does This Men's Formula Deliver?

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/articles/horsewood-urgent-report-2026-horse-19110038...
1•tagyhanu•48m ago•0 comments

LLM Medical Triage: Same Symptoms, Gender-Dependent Urgency

https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.03641
1•p4bl0•52m ago•0 comments

Show HN: PDF.chat

https://pdf.chat/
1•nadermx•56m ago•0 comments

Scaling Real-Time Streaming

https://systemsapproach.org/2026/06/29/scaling-real-time-streaming/
1•teleforce•59m ago•0 comments