August 28, 2013

Fujitsu Develops World's First Homomorphic Encryption Technology that Enables Statistical Calculations and Biometric Authentication



Promotes information-sharing between companies, a previous privacy issue

Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd. announced development of the world's first homomorphic encryption(1) technology that enables statistical calculations and biometric authentication to be performed on encrypted data — without having to decrypt it — at high speeds.

As cloud-based data has grown increasingly prevalent, data protection has become a critical issue, and homomorphic encryption, which allows mathematical processes to be performed on data in its encrypted state, has gained attention. Existing homomorphic encryption methods, however, use bit -by-bit encryption, which slows down processing times, making practical application of it problematic.