Microsoft Advances Privacy-Enabling 'Homomorphic Encryption' For Analyzing Biomedical Data

[Lucian Armasu]

Microsoft released a "manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics," which should help medical institutions keep their patients' data highly confidential. Neither Microsoft nor malicious attackers should be able to see individuals' data.

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[kbannan]

Interesting. But pointless unless the organization takes a strategy that covers all the security bases -- not just one or two.

--KB

Karen Bannan, commenting on behalf of IDG and Dell

 

[tsnor]

@lucian_armasu I could not find additional information on the "manual for homomorphic encryption for bioinformatics". The other stories I read were based on yours. Any pointers you can provide toward additional information? Thanks

If the encryption is now fast enough to handle in software that is interesting news indeed.

 

[tsnor]

Interesting. But pointless unless the organization takes a strategy that covers all the security bases -- not just one or two.

--KB

Karen Bannan, commenting on behalf of IDG and Dell

Can you elaborate on why a very specialized niche encryption like homomorphic encryption is pointless unless it covers all security bases? At one point HTTPS was considered an oddball niche also. Or perhaps I did not correctly understand your post.

 

[Lucian Armasu]

@tsnor There's a source link at the top. I'm not sure if you saw that. On that page there's a PDF link in the top right corner. That's Microsoft's paper on it. There's also a link in it for the code, but it's not live yet.