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Researcher Discovers Method to Fully Process Encrypted Data Without Knowing its Content

(PhysOrg.com) -- An IBM Researcher has solved a thorny mathematical problem that has confounded scientists since the invention of public-key encryption several decades ago. The breakthrough, called "privacy homomorphism," ...

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created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (18) | comments 9




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Improving security in the cloud

Less and less of today's computing is done on desktop computers; cloud computing, in which operations are carried out on a network of shared, remote servers, is expected to rise as the demand for computing power increases. ...

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created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Major step ahead for cryptography

Imagine you could work out the answer to a question, without knowing what the question was. For example, suppose someone thinks of two numbers and then asks another person to work out their sum, without letting ...

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created May 26, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Computer scientists deploy first practical, Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system

Computer scientists affiliated with the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS), based at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with scientists at the Université ...

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created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 12

Voting for online democracy

The Internet may be used to power elections in towns, cities, countries, and even across Europe thanks to the work of a recently completed project. It would mean voters could cast their ballots at home, in the street via ...

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created May 06, 2005 | popularity 2.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0


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