David, Thanks for sharing the links. I heard about Fully Homomorphic Encryption few months back. This is exactly what Cloud Services like Google Docs needs.
Right now, I use Google Docs for their excellent search capabilities. But I can not store encrypted data on Google Docs, and make it searchable without divulging the decryption keys. Which essentially means that I have to be careful about what I upload to Google Docs. So my updated equation is: CC + HPH + FHE = Future of computing CC=Cloud Computing HPH=Host-Proof Hosting FHE=Fully Homomorphic Encryption Saqib > Some fun recent results that I can brag about on behalf of the Lab tell us > that it's in principle possible to do all SORTS of processing on encrypted > data, without decrypting it. See > http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/27840.wss > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1536414.1536440 _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
