Homomorphic Encryption
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Homomorphic Encryption - overview
Security Accomplishment | 2009
IBM researcher: Craig Gentry
Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
What we accomplished: Gentry (pictured) made it posisble to do arbitrary computation on encrypted data.
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