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IBM Researcher Comes up With Encryption Breakthrough

Posted by Kara Reeder Jun 26, 2009 10:31:25 AM

IBM researcher Craig Gentry claims to have come up with a way for computer systems to perform calculations on encrypted data without decrypting it, reports Forbes.

 

So-called "fully homomorphic encryption" would allow computer services, like Google, that store the confidential electronic data of others to search for information using encrypted search words, and get encrypted results that they could then decrypt on their own.

 

There is a catch, notes Computerworld. Using encrypted keywords would multiply the necessary computing time by around 1 trillion.

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