Thursday, October 1, 2009
A Breakthrough in Internet Encryption
This article was just released on Business Week, and discusses an amazingly exciting advancement in internet-based encryption. Although many years away from commercial use, this could be the invention to truly bring all vital information and data into the cloud. Very exciting!
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Internet Encryption discovery by Mr Graig Gentry is surely a relief and break through for online personal data protection. However the Encryption algorithmic as mention in the article is still years away from being released to the market. More thorough and rigorous research and testing by IBM needs to be done, with focus on upgrading computer hardware capabilities necessary to match the new Internet encryption.
The discovery of fully homomorphic encryption system by Gentry is definitely amazing and can be useful for new invention. However the finding seems impractical to be implied in mobile E-commerce. More info can be found here : http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/homomorphic_enc.html
Does this invention have the ability to become a disruptive innovation then?
Yes,it does but just for a moment. Since digital technology such as the encryption technology is easily broken, engineers have to continue create new technologies to avoid someone else catching up the technology. However, the encryption must become not only a competent of IBM but also value. In addition, I think the technology was invented as a result of marketing, although it might be brought into through Gentry's experience in this case.
This invention may be scientific breakthrough technology, however I'm not sure whether this invention will lead an explosive innovation or not. As you know, when we access e-commerce site such as internet banking, online trading, or shopping site by PC or mobile, we usually use SSL which encrypt network connections from server to client to keep security. SSL technology is not perfect, but it spreads widely in the world and it is included in most of browsing software. In addition, it has a track record of being used for over fifteen years. The most important thing is not what technology is invented but how the technology is used widely.
I quite agree that this invention is great discovery on cryptanalysis.
But I’m not sure that this innovation will bring a breakthrough to E-commerce because I cannot find much need on E-commerce to calculate with encrypted (not decoded) secret information, such as account number, telephone number, etc. I must consider how to use it.
To Japanese friends, I find brief news written by the Japanese language.
Please check: http://techtarget.itmedia.co.jp/tt/news/0907/27/news03.html
This invention is very fantastic, and I'm very interested in this kind of technology. Because I was engineer of semiconductor which mainly used for Digital AV products such as Digital TV, Blu-Ray Disc Player and Set Top Boxes. Usually I was distressed about security and hacking of products. You know well, DVD's encription system CSS was already destroyed. Untill I came here, I heard from my colleagues that Blu-Ray's AACS and BD+ are not broken yet. But in near future, this also go same way. I'm anxious to come strong Encryption technology in order to prevent companies' and individual's IP.
Just for the time being, it is a disruptive innovation. To me, this is a Tom and Jerry game, which never ends. There are infinite ways of decryption a secured encrypted wireless devices (mobile, web etc). This are some links as an evidence of the never ends Tom and Jerry show...
How to hack mobile phones with Bluetooth (video learning)- "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBW_nIBycuM&feature=related".
Hacking and decrypting SSL and TLS traffic- "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kQ_nTRt37c"
Top 10 Internet Hacks of all time- "http://hacknmod.com/hack/top-10-internet-hacks-of-all-time/"
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