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I’m not sure if this is just rumors, or if there’s any hope to succeed. If not a rumor, who knows what exactly might analyzing encrypting data means… Nonetheless, if everybody were using distributed (not even just decentralized) communications and sharing mechanisms…

  • Dreeg Ocedam@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    Holomorphic encryption is not about breaking existing encryption. It’s about building new cryptosystems that allow specific operations that current cryptosystems don’t. The goal is to build a cryptosystem where given a function f such that f(x) = y you want to have an encryption scheme where someone who doesn’t know x but knows encrypt(x) can calculate encrypt(y) without learning anything about x or y.

    If someone found a way to do something like that with a current cryptosystem it would be considered broken.