Monday, August 8, 2011

A Cloud that Can't Leak

38239 from technologyreview.com - StumbleUpon Going DEEP Wow!
Researchers recognized the potential value of fully homomorphic encryption (in which software could perform any calculation on encrypted data and produce a result that was also encrypted) many years ago. But until recently, it wasn't known to be possible, let alone practical. Only in 2009 did Craig Gentry of IBM publish a mathematical proof showing fully homomorphic encryption was possible.

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