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Obfuscation (or beclouding) is the hiding of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, willfully ambiguous, and harder to interpret.[citation needed]. The word comes from Latin obfuscatio, from obfuscāre (“to darken”), from ob (“over”) and fuscāre (“to make dark”), from fuscus (“dark”). Obfustication is a common variant, especially in British English.



Eschew obfuscation[edit]




White box cryptography[edit]


Network security[edit]


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  1. ^ Appendix 25 - Medspeak
  4. ^ Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses (1895)

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