The Art and Science of Obfuscation

Thomborson, Clark

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_43

The Art and Science of Obfuscation

Clark Thomborson⁷

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Obfuscation is fundamentally both an art and a science, implying that its competent practitioners must be crafty as well as intelligent, and clever as well as precise.

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Computer Science Department, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, New Zealand
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Computer Science, College of Engineering and Science, Louisiana Tech University, 71272, Ruston, LA, USA
Sumeet Dua
Department of Information Systems, College of Engineering and Information, Technology, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop Circle, 2125, Baltimore, MD, USA
Aryya Gangopadhyay
Department of Computer Science, The University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Parimala Thulasiraman
ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy
Umberto Straccia
Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University Halifax, B3H 1W5, Nova Scotia, Canada
Michael Shepherd
Faculty of Media: Media Systems, Bauhaus University Weimar, 99421, Weimar, Germany
Benno Stein

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Thomborson, C. (2012). The Art and Science of Obfuscation. In: Dua, S., Gangopadhyay, A., Thulasiraman, P., Straccia, U., Shepherd, M., Stein, B. (eds) Information Systems, Technology and Management. ICISTM 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 285. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29166-1_43

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