May 2016 - Vol. 59 No. 5

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Features

Opinion

The IANA Transition

This month I explore the proposal sent in March 2016 by ICANN to the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunication and Information Agency (NTIA) to end the long-standing contractual relationship between ICANN and NTIA for the conduct of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority functions.
Research and Advances Research highlights

Hiding Secrets in Software: A Cryptographic Approach to Program Obfuscation

Can we hide secrets in software? Can we make programs unintelligible while preserving their functionality? Why would we even want to do this? In this article, we describe some rigorous cryptographic answers to these quasi-philosophical questions.

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