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[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 09:36:50AM +0000, Ian Batten wrote:
> > 
> > [1] Here would I add a reference to a paper about using mathematical
> > transforms to perform computing on encrypted data without decrypting
> > it, but I'm afraid I can't find it right this minute ...
>
> Homomorphic encryption.  Fascinating, but not practical today, nor
> likely to become so any time soon.  And the definition of
> "computation" it uses is not hugely useful for the purposes this list
> is concerned with.

That's the one.  Wikipedia has a good description:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_homomorphic_encryption

Any interesting papers on it I should read?

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat