Reply to post: Re: Snooping

Microsoft researchers smash homomorphic encryption speed barrier

Robert Helpmann??
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Re: Snooping

... encrypted "not databases" ... could be sent for analysis by third party clouds ... whilst still keeping both the data and the results of the analysis encrypted at all times.

But by doing this, wouldn't it open the door to data capture and eventual decryption? It seems to me that such an approach would be putting a large amount of trust in encryption alone instead of a more layered approach of encryption, access controls, et cetera. How ironic it would be if too much reliance was placed something intended to increase security and thereby allowed unauthorized access*.

*Not that anything of this nature has ever happened before.

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