On Friday, COSIC research group of KU Leuven organized an event arranged by Nigel Smart in Leuven about computation on encrypted data. More specifically, it was about secure multi-party computation (MPC) and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).
I learnt a lot about the concepts, the existing and potential use cases of these practical data protection tactics. As a researcher interested in middleware, cloud computing, and applied cryptography, it was a fruitful day for me!
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A girl for sale: “Virgin, beautiful, 12 years old …. Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon.”
That was an advertisement in Arabic on the Telegram App. Apparently, it was shared by an activist minority of the Yazidi community. Should we stop encrypting messaging applications?
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