Re: Popular explanation of fully homomorphic encryption wanted

2009-06-17 Thread Jack Lloyd
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 09:31:36AM -0700, "Hal Finney" wrote: > Udhay Shankar N quotes wikipedia: > > The question was finally resolved in 2009 with the development of the > > first true fully homomorphic cryptosystem. The scheme, constructed by > > Craig Gentry, employs lattice based encryption an

Re: Popular explanation of fully homomorphic encryption wanted

2009-06-16 Thread "Hal Finney"
Udhay Shankar N quotes wikipedia: > The question was finally resolved in 2009 with the development of the > first true fully homomorphic cryptosystem. The scheme, constructed by > Craig Gentry, employs lattice based encryption and allows evaluation > of both addition and multiplication operations w

Popular explanation of fully homomorphic encryption wanted

2009-06-16 Thread Udhay Shankar N
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption : > The utility of fully homomorphic encryption has been long > recognized. The problem of constructing such a scheme was first > proposed within a year of the development of RSA.[1] A solution proved > more elusive; for more than 30 years,