TWC: Frontier: Collaborative: CORE: Center for Encrypted Functionalities

TWC：前沿：协作：CORE：加密功能中心

• 批准号: 1414000
• 负责人: Dan Boneh
• 金额: $ 95万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2021-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1414000&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TWC; Frontier; Collaborative; CORE; Center

The Center for Encrypted Functionalities (CORE) tackles the deep and far-reaching problem of general-purpose "program obfuscation," which aims to enhance cybersecurity by making an arbitrary computer program unintelligible while preserving its functionality. This can in turn enable a host of applications, such as hiding from potential adversaries the existence of vulnerabilities that may have been introduced through human error in the design/development process, thereby preventing tampering or deterring reverse engineering, or hiding cryptographic keys within software, thereby strengthening encryption and information transfer. At the heart of the Center's research activities is the development of new and rigorous mathematical techniques to build faster and more secure general-purpose mechanisms enabling such software. In pursuit of this goal, the CORE team tackles many technical questions: Can secure general-purpose mechanisms avoid the inefficiency overhead that arises from Barrington's Theorem? Can the security of these mechanisms be proven to hold against idealized adversaries, or be based on natural non-interactive hardness assumptions? Can these approaches be securely leveraged to protect data from rogue insiders, who must be able to access some data in the clear? Finally, can these mechanisms be used to reduce the level of interaction required to accomplish secure communication and computation tasks? In addition to its direct research program, the Center organizes retreats and workshops to bring together researchers to carry out the Center's mission. The Center also engages in high-impact outreach efforts, such as the development of free Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

加密功能中心 (CORE) 致力于解决通用“程序混淆”这一深层次且影响深远的问题，其目的是通过使任意计算机程序变得难以理解，同时保留其功能来增强网络安全。这反过来又可以启用许多应用程序，例如向潜在对手隐藏设计/开发过程中可能因人为错误而引入的漏洞的存在，从而防止篡改或阻止逆向工程，或隐藏软件中的加密密钥，从而加强加密和信息传输。 该中心研究活动的核心是开发新的、严格的数学技术，以构建更快、更安全的通用机制来支持此类软件。为了实现这一目标，CORE 团队解决了许多技术问题：安全的通用机制能否避免巴林顿定理带来的低效率开销？这些机制的安全性能否被证明能够抵御理想化的对手，或者基于自然的非交互式硬度假设？是否可以安全地利用这些方法来保护数据免受流氓内部人员的侵害，这些内部人员必须能够以明文方式访问某些数据？最后，这些机制可以用来减少完成安全通信和计算任务所需的交互级别吗？除了直接研究计划外，该中心还组织静修会和研讨会，将研究人员聚集在一起，以执行该中心的使命。该中心还从事高影响力的外展工作，例如开发免费的大规模开放在线课程（MOOC）。