Microsoft Helps Out Healthcare Sector With New Data Encryption Algorithm
http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-helps-out-healthcare-sector-with-new-data-encryption-algorithm-496249.shtml
Homomorphic encryption is a method of encryption that
encodes data in such a way that it allows developers to work
with the encrypted data in the same way they would if it was in
unencrypted form. Operations ran on homomorphic encrypted data
yield the same results as when ran on the data's cleartext
version. Microsoft's new algorithm, named SEAL (Simple
Encrypted Arithmetic Library) is modeled after homomorphic
encryption principles, and allows developers to carry out
addition and multiplication operations on the encrypted data.
For now, the Redmond company says that SEAL can only handle
genomic data used in bioinformatics.
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