[Cryptography] One third IT managers think homomorphic is already here

Peter Gutmann pgut001 at cs.auckland.ac.nz
Sat May 3 03:40:49 EDT 2014


Steve Weis <steveweis at gmail.com> writes:

>I suspect most of the self-reported people using "encryption in the cloud"
>simply encrypt locally and store ciphertext remotely. That would include
>using products like CipherCloud, Perspecsys, Porticor, Tarsnap, Boxcryptor,
>Spideroak, Sookasa, and many others.

You're looking in the mirror here and seeing people like yourself making the
decisions.  They're not, they're IT managers.  They're doing the crypto in the
cloud, with the keys in the cloud.  After all, the data's already there, so if
you trust the cloud with your data you can also trust it with your keys.

Peter.


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