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Encryption's holy grail is getting closer, one way or another
Working with encrypted data without decrypting it first sounds too good to be true, but it's becoming possible.
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I'd love to be wrong here, homomorphic encryption is still deeply in the land of white papers, technical journals and testing suites. There may be a commercial release sometime, but overall it will be extremely limited to a handful of use-cases and generally unusable for general computing demands.
Sure, the copy sounds good, but until it's a comprehensive product, it's not going to be able to address everything out there. It's difficult to believe that companies will turn over their regulated, compliant data to "cloud" companies to crunch.
You know what would be the holy grail for me? End to end encryption so easy that my mother and girlfriend can use it. Sending or receiving sensitive data electronically is just damn near impossible when you're trying to send it to people who aren't tech savvy.
Yeah. I'm awaiting the time where it will become more accessible for the common, non-tech inclined people to easily use encryption/decryption.
I don't know how many times my parents have sent me sensitive information in plain text without even blinking an eye, even after I tell them not to. Scary.
What do you mean? Encryption is already built into some platforms, and is behind the scenes so you wouldn't know this sensitive data is actually already being encrypted.
Please be more specific. I don't trust Google or Yahoo to keep my emails secure, which is why I mentioned end to end encryption. I personally use an openmailbox.org account and Evolution mail client, which has built in GPG support. But setting it up (creating/importing/exporting keys, configuring the email client, etc.) tends to be beyond the abilities of tech illiterate people.
And then you have the UK government saying they're banning encryption. Nah mate, I'm still gonna encrypt my hard drive every time I use it
Why can't the data be sent to the client, decrypted, modified, encrypted, and sent back to the server(similarly to ZeroDB)? Of course, the endpoint must be secure. If it is not, how will homomorphic encryption help you? Thanks in advance to any clarifications on this topic.