brainwagon

A couple of weeks ago during lunch, someone had mentioned that a breakthrough in the world of cryptography had occurred: that someone had succeeded in creating something called a “homomorphic encryption scheme”. The thing was, nobody at the table really understood what that was all about. I did a brief bit of reading on it, and once I got the basic idea, I realized that yes indeed, it was a pretty amazing result, and pretty surprising. But rather than try to describe it to you, I’ll toss you to this recent link on Bruce Schneier’s website for his explanation.

Schneier on Security: Homomorphic Encryption Breakthrough