[plug] MS Curriculum at schools and TAFEs ...

[The Thought Assassin]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Christian wrote:
> Basic idea related to the use of one-way functions and somehow forcing
> the "pirate" to solve a computationally "hard problem" in order to
> reverse engineer the code.  Of course, my memory could easily be wrong
> here...

If I apply s/reverse engineer/decompile/ then this makes sense to me.
Reverse engineering, OTOH, can be done by observing the actions of the
running code, and obviously the processor can't be required to solve the
computationally hard problem before running the code.

-Greg Mildenhall