One of the most powerful companies from time immemorial in the computer and software ecosystem, IBM, has just released a encryption oriented toolkit. Valid for macOS and iOS, now developers will have access to the possibility of incorporating these tools on our Macs.
Security is essential and this IBM system goes one step further
One of the fundamental premises in technology is security. Apple just created your own new, public encryption program. He has uploaded it to GitHub and anyone with knowledge can access it and implement new tools. IBM has done something similar, but going a somewhat different path.
The encryption system that IBM has released for developers, it is based on the homomorphic cipher system. It is capable of performing an operation algebraic concrete on an original text. This is equivalent to another algebraic operation (not necessarily the same) on the encrypted result of that original text. In other and clearer words: This type of encryption allows a company to perform calculations on the data while still keeping that data encrypted.
Eleven years ago, IBM made a breakthrough in the development of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). However, it remains a complicated technology that is difficult to implement. IBM aims to change this premise by releasing this Developer Toolkit. It will allow you to experiment with this type of security and be able to incorporate it into your creations.
With this type of technology, security is significantly expanded because already We will not have to decrypt the data in order to access it. This was the trojan hair of all the encryption is that we use on a regular basis. The moment to release that data and that could be exposed to other people's eyes.
This kind of software it is very useful for companies that handle millions of data that must be kept safe. Therefore for the users of "on foot" it is a very important step. Any application, for example of key generation that allows this technology, would succeed without hesitation.