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		privacyguru on Dec 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: An MIT Trick: Computing On Encrypted Databases Wit... Yeah, not very new. The idea of "homomorphic encryption" has been around for a while. http://www.securityweek.com/making-use-sensitive-data-cloud-...

abhishektwr on Dec 20, 2011 [–]

I agree, novelty is not a factor here but the performance is.

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