"There is much pleasure in useless knowledge." — Bertrand Russell
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, […]
While my blog has been dominated by radio related stuff lately, I do continue to be interested in lots of different subjects, including various topics related to computer security and codes. While scanning my feeds today, I found reference to this work, which I hadn’t seen before, but which I find interesting both for its […]
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