New secure algorithm for programs - Functional Encryption

[morganism]

If anyone is going to IEEE, you might put this on the list to see.

http://www.tgdaily.com/security-feature ... t-software

This looks like an extremely useful tech for securing programs , and for figuring out how to secure webmail

[barbaz]

This could be abused in so many ways... what are we going to do if, say, evil hackers use this to obfuscate malware? How will we be able to detect it before it's too late?

[Thrawn]

The Free Software Foundation and the Electronic Frontiers Foundation will find this very scary. It sounds like the ultimate DRM tool.