Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a technical essay on Monday laying out how a form of advanced cryptography called indistinguishability obfuscation, known as iO, could one day al
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a technical essay on Monday laying out how a form of advanced cryptography called indistinguishability obfuscation, known as iO, could one day allow people to vote privately on a blockchain without relying on any trusted committee to manage or reveal results.
Buterin described iO as a technique that converts software into a protected program. Anyone can run the program and receive its intended output, but no one can inspect the internal code or extract data stored inside it. He framed the concept as hiding the code itself rather than the information the code processes.
