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Message-ID: <CAGiyFdejc4EQuH9et5EQAoLK=k1Y285O2AvNx+B0m9OMp+ehzA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 22:57:22 +0100
From: Jean-Philippe Aumasson <jeanphilippe.aumasson@...il.com>
To: discussions@...sword-hashing.net
Subject: password hashing and point obfuscation

A new paper of djb et al.:

"'Point obfuscation' is the same concept as password hashing: see,
e.g., [33] (a hashed password is a 'provably secure obfuscation of a
‘point function’ under the random oracle model')."

http://obviouscation.cr.yp.to/obviouscation-20150223.pdf