24.12.2011 00:05 Uhr, Quelle: Engadget

MIT's got a way of using encrypted data without decrypting it, next stop, traveling without moving

Excepting Jersey Shore participants, people generally value privacy and it's a bigger issue when so much data is stored online. Ethical data controllers will keep it encrypted, but much like leaving food in a fridge, you have to take it out if you wanna use it, which is when it's most at risk. A team from MIT, thinks it's found a solution: a database that allows you to ask it questions without taking it out of the fridge wait, what? CryptDB works by turning data into "homomorphic" information: strings of numbers, which you can then calculate ag

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