https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Microsoft-jumping-on-the-homomorphic-encryption-bandwagon/m-p/42824#M5283 <P>Yet another of <A href="https://community.isc2.org/t5/Threats/Happy-New-Year-What-are-your-predictions/m-p/42083/highlight/true#M203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">my predictions for 2021</A> has come true.&nbsp; (Well, sort of.)&nbsp; Microsoft has made an <A href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/password-monitor-safeguarding-passwords-in-microsoft-edge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</A> of a practical application for homomorphic encryption, which they are using in Edge.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Yeah, right.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What they are really doing is an optimized form of hashing for storing passwords.&nbsp; Gee, who would have thought of using hashing to store passwords!&nbsp; Wait, didn't someone think of that sixty or seventy years ago?&nbsp; And haven't we been using that technology ever since?&nbsp; It's one of the "bad examples" of homomorphic encryption I used in my presentation about the technology ...</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:46:50 GMT rslade 2023-10-09T09:46:50Z https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Microsoft-jumping-on-the-homomorphic-encryption-bandwagon/m-p/42824#M5283 <P>Yet another of <A href="https://community.isc2.org/t5/Threats/Happy-New-Year-What-are-your-predictions/m-p/42083/highlight/true#M203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">my predictions for 2021</A> has come true.&nbsp; (Well, sort of.)&nbsp; Microsoft has made an <A href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/password-monitor-safeguarding-passwords-in-microsoft-edge/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announcement</A> of a practical application for homomorphic encryption, which they are using in Edge.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Yeah, right.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What they are really doing is an optimized form of hashing for storing passwords.&nbsp; Gee, who would have thought of using hashing to store passwords!&nbsp; Wait, didn't someone think of that sixty or seventy years ago?&nbsp; And haven't we been using that technology ever since?&nbsp; It's one of the "bad examples" of homomorphic encryption I used in my presentation about the technology ...</P> Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:46:50 GMT https://community.isc2.org/t5/Industry-News/Microsoft-jumping-on-the-homomorphic-encryption-bandwagon/m-p/42824#M5283 rslade 2023-10-09T09:46:50Z