Obfuscation = cryptography?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

OK, I'll admit that the math in this type of paper is completely beyond me.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2014/02/cryptography-breakthrough/

But, hasn't he, or any of his friends, paid any attention to malware in the past two 
decades?  There is plenty of obfuscation out there.  (Most of it does what his 
program does: turn little programs into bloated monsters.)

Admittedly, this is an academic analysis of the foundations of what you can do, 
and probably will, eventually, with a lot of development, provide for a number of 
applications.

But I'm going to want to see a lot more explanation (by someone who understands 
what he has been told) before I'm going to get excited about this.

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