Microsoft helps healthcare with homomorphic seals
 

The healthcare industry has been blighted by poor security for a while which has placed patent records at risk.

One of the problem has been that while files can be encrypted if they have to be unencrypted when they are used. This left a large security hole.

Now Microsoft has come up with a free tool to help with biomedical data processing and encryption

In a recent paper released on its research portal, Microsoft has announced a new encryption algorithm that implements the theory of homomorphic encryption.

Homomorphic encryption is a method of encryption that encodes data in such a way that it allows developers to work with the encrypted data in the same way they would if it was in unencrypted form. Operations ran on homomorphic encrypted data yield the same results as when ran on the data’s cleartext version.

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