-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 05/20/14 22:45, Robert J. Hansen wrote: > On 5/20/2014 10:25 PM, Phil Stracchino wrote: >> If you come up with a better way, the NSA has a well-paying job >> waiting for you. > > Already done, actually. Homomorphic encryption systems let > end-users perform specific kinds of computation on ciphertext to > produce an output which, when decrypted, yields the result of doing > those operations on plaintext. Unpadded RSA is partially > homomorphic; however, (a) it's not homomorphic in the ways that > would be useful to this problem, and (b) it's stupid to use > unpadded RSA and the OpenPGP spec prohibits it. > > But, yeah. Homomorphic systems exist, and they support really > weird things like this. But OpenPGP isn't a homomorphic system and > thus all this talk is of no real utility to us. > > But they're *cool*, darn it all. :)
Well, yeah, very true. I did actually think about homomorphic systems myself, just couldn't recall the term offhand. But now tell me the NSA doesn't have some well-paid people working on homomorphic systems. :) - -- Phil Stracchino Babylon Communications [email protected] [email protected] Landline: 603.293.8485 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEAREIAAYFAlN8GQEACgkQ0DfOju+hMknUtwCg4sCvFF5aHqCHLCbe+8xoWpcb DUsAoPcR/V8iBA4fSX5AO5mprMcQAaIN =q+BH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ enigmail-users mailing list [email protected] https://admin.hostpoint.ch/mailman/listinfo/enigmail-users_enigmail.net
