Samuel Greengard – Edge Features
The ability to perform complex calculations on encrypted data promises a new level of privacy and data security for companies in the public and private sectors. So when can they get started?
Modern cryptography is embedded in countless digital systems and components. It’s an essential tool for keeping data secure and private. Yet one of the biggest limitations with cryptography, including widely used public key encryption (PKE), is having to decrypt sensitive data in order to process and analyze it.
“There are many scenarios where it’s preferable to work on data ‘blindfolded’ and without access to the encryption key,” says Chris Peikert, an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. This includes areas as diverse as healthcare, law, manufacturing, finance, and online voting.
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