Vitalik publishes a detailed article explaining the entire technical tree behind the mainline of obfuscation protocols (iO)

CoinFeed June 29 news, Vitalik Buterin published an article "Obfuscation: building the final boss of cryptography (Part I)", systematically organizing the entire technical tree behind the mainline of obfuscation protocols (iO). The article states that obfuscation technology can transform programs into "encrypted programs", hiding internal logic while allowing computation on plaintext inputs, theoretically enabling a "trustless trusted third party", and combined with blockchain can build nearly trustless voting systems, auction protocols, and other applications. However, although the runtime of current iO schemes is technically polynomial time, the actual overhead is enormous, with estimated runtime exceeding the lifespan of the universe.