- An IIT Delhi graduate has won a google-sponsored $20,000 prize for developing a technique to protect against cyber attacks.
- This technique addresses the problem of software obfuscation – making the computer program code unintelligible while preserving its functionality to prevent its tampering.
- His approach makes it impossible to reverse engineer the obfuscated software without solving mathematical problems that take hundreds of years to work out on present day computers.
- Read at: http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/iit-graduate-develops-tools-to-counter-cyber-attacks/article5995039.ece
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