We found a method to make reverse engineering with agents over 700x more expensive to the attacker while adding only a small linear cost to the defender.
Summary
A proposed Rust macro technique that makes reverse engineering attacks over 700x more expensive while only adding small linear overhead to the defender, with suggestions it could be made exponentially costly in constant time similar to RSA.
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