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The Cloud Security Ecosystem
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The Cloud Security Ecosystem

by Raymond Choo, Ryan Ko
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
570 pages
18h 37m
English
Syngress
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Chapter 5

A guide to homomorphic encryption

Mark A. Will; Ryan K.L. Ko    Cyber Security Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Abstract

Traditional cryptography techniques require our data to be unencrypted to be processed correctly. This means that at some stage on a system we have no control over, our data will be processed in plaintext. Homomorphic encryption or specifically, fully homomorphic encryption is a viable solution to this problem. It allows encrypted data to be processed as if it were in plaintext and will produce the correct value once decrypted. While many know that homomorphic encryption promises to be an ideal solution to trust, security, and privacy issues in cloud computing, few ...

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ISBN: 9780128017807