Darpa Is Searching For The Ultimate Unbreakable Code

Photo: IBM researcher Craig Gentry

DARPA Will Spend $20 Million To Search For Crypto’s Holy Grail -- Forbes

Two years ago, IBM researcher Craig Gentry revealed that he’d cracked a 30-year old theoretical problem in cryptography: How to perform complex computations on encrypted data without decrypting it. That seemingly magical trick would allow a computer to manipulate a user’s scrambled information without ever violating its secrecy, a potential privacy breakthrough that’s particularly enticing in an era of outsourcing and cloud computing.

Turning Gentry’s innovative but impractical crypto scheme into a workable product, on the other hand, will take years’–or even decades’–more work. But to the defense and intelligence research agencies DARPA and IARPA, that sounds like just the sort of ambitious challenge worth tackling.

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My Comment: Searching for the ultimate unhackable and unbreakable crypto code .... I wish them luck.