Physicist reckons two-button calculator can do all elementary math

In a recently updated, yet-to-be-peer-reviewed paper, Odrzywołek says he has, in essence, developed a two-button calculator ...
Security Boulevard

Simplifying MBA obfuscation with CoBRA

Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation disguises simple operations like x + y behind tangles of arithmetic and bitwise operators. Malware authors and software protectors rely on it because no ...
Electronic Design

What’s The Difference Between C – Now and Then

Dennis Ritchie started developing the C programming language (Fig. 1) in 1969 at AT&T’s Bell Labs. In 1972, Dennis Ritchie and Brian Kernighan delivered the quintessential book, The C Programming ...
The Guardian

There’s more to maths than arithmetic

Kayleigh Ward and Richard Monteith take issue with the idea that calculators have rendered a proper education in maths unnecessary I’m baffled by Simon Jenkins’ insistence that calculators render a ...
GitHub

Convert arithmetic circuits into boolean circuits

both circuits represent the addition of two numbers, but the arithmetic circuit simply uses one built-in addition gate, and the boolean circuit achieves (4-bit) addition using only boolean operations.
IEEE

X-MBA: Towards Heterogeneous Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Deobfuscation

Abstract: The Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) expression has been widely used by attackers as an effective obfuscation schema to hide malicious code and conceal sensitive data. For deobfuscating MBAs, ...
GitHub

MBASED: Practical Simplifications of Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic Obfuscation

Mixed Boolean-Arithmetic (MBA) obfuscation is a technique that transforms simple boolean expressions into complex expressions by combining arithmetic and boolean operations. It serves the purpose of ...