I noticed this morning that Google patent search returns 189 results for the query “homomorphic encryption." I have written about homomorphic encryption in the past; it is a true mathematical breakthrough which has the potential to transform cloud computing security. But the emphasis, here, is on “potential.” There is no fully homomorphic encryption scheme which [...]
Also tagged patentsI’ll be speaking at a Slashdot/Geeknet "virtual trade show" today.
Moving to Better Secure the Cloud: Governance, Risk, and Compliance Management
My presentation will be on the potential business impact on the web if an efficient and fully homomorphic encryption system is invented. I’ll be speaking sometime in between 3:15 and 4:00 EST, for about 20 minutes. [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote What Is Homomorphic Encryption, and Why Should I Care? In that post, I promised to share my C# implementation of the algorithm from Craig Gentry’s CACM article. Before I can do that, though, I need to explain some of the math involved.
Perhaps surprisingly, it’s actually very simple. (I [...]
The March 2010 issue of the Communications of the ACM includes a technical paper with an introduction entitled "A First Glance of Cryptography’s Holy Grail" (ACM subscription required). That’s enough to catch my attention. The paper itself, Computing Arbitrary Functions of Encrypted Data, describes a relatively new algorithm for homomorphic encryption.
Although these words may be [...]
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