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Homomorphic Encryption for Secure Cloud Data Processing

Quick fact

Fully homomorphic encryption, first proposed in 2009, was long considered 'the holy grail of cryptography' because it allows any computation on encrypted data, a problem open for over 30 years.

Why this is interesting

Imagine being able to analyze millions of patient medical records without ever seeing the actual data—even the cloud service performing the analysis never sees it. How could that be possible?