Microsoft Demonstrates Practical Homomorphic Computing

holy_calamity writes "Homomorphic computing makes it possible to compute with encrypted data and get an encrypted result, something that could make cloud services more secure. Such systems have so far been mathematical proofs, but researchers at Microsoft now say that stripped down versions able to only compute certain mathematical functions are efficient enough to be used today. They built prototype software capable of calculating statistical functions using encrypted data and say it could be used for processing medical data while protecting privacy."

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Georgia School

[MyLongNickName]

Georgia Schools voted to not allow teachers to include this in their Computer Science programs.

Re:Georgia School

[MightyYar]

It was banned in the same bill that mandated intelligent computation.

I think this is shameful

[bigsexyjoe]

The father of Computer Science, Alan Turing, was gay. And now people actually want to engage in homophobic computing? I find this kind of hatred shameful.