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    chickenado (OP)
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    October 07, 2010, 11:48:16 AM
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    I had an idea for a program:

    Inside an encrypted part of the program are stored the private keys for 10,000 Bitcoins, and some code. Then there is some plaintext code that executes the encrypted container.

    The program is self encrypting. So even when executed, it sends garbled pieces of data to CPU and RAM that return garbled pieces of data.

    What it comes down to is that only the program itself "knows" the bitcoin private keys and the code inside the cointainer.  They would never be revealed to the host.  I don't mean security by obscurity like spaghetti code, what I mean is that no amount of reverse engineering would reveal the contents of the container.

    The only way the user could access the 10,000 coins (apart from breaking the cryptography) would be to interact with the program and convice it to spit them out. For example, by completing all levels of pacman.

    Or, on a more advanced level, by giving the program some resource it wants (CPU access, internet access...).

    I'd like to know your thoughts whether this would be possible in theory.
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