re "Homomorphic encryption"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: SJ Manning <sjmanning () fymc com>
> Date: July 14, 2010 7:55:11 PM EDT
> To: David Farber <dave () farber net>, David Farber <dfarber () cmu edu>
> Subject: "Homomorphic encryption"
> Reply-To: sjmanning () fymc com

> Hi Dave.
>
> For IP if you wish.
>
> Reading this with great interest.  Not because I profess any legitimate understanding of this esoteric topic.  I do, 
> however, recall the admonishment of - with the exception of present company - the singularly brightest human being I 
> have ever had the privilege to keep company with:  "Sometimes things that don't make sense just don't make sense."
>
> A couple years ago, I spent some stunned time in the afore-referenced friend's think tank of hyper-technological 
> folks.  Two of those people, part of the "bleeding-edge" crew, were working on a project:  generating the same random 
> number in two places at the same time.  To me, that was a quintessential oxymoron.  Yet they had genuine credibility 
> with that project.  Perhaps they succeeded.  I can see that happening much like "the emperors new clothes."  Naive 
> and uninformed, am I?
>
> As to the project subject of this email string,  if one end of the data flow has the formula for encryption, the 
> other end needs to get it to - oh heck, un-encrypt it.  Even if there is a map of the encryption allowing the 
> receiving end to manipulate the "encrypted data", is that not the obvious gateway to the data itself?
>
> Cloud computing sounds so ethereal.  Even romantic as an empirical milieu.  Somebody kindly explain to this 
> techo-simpleton how that is not the use of heretofore "shared main frames with appropriate processing software" with 
> a new and amazing method of accessing those (as to input, functions and output).
>
> For now, I will write an ode to my laptops and the super people who produce all those fine pieces of software to 
> protect my computer/data.  And that of all my employees armed with laptops.   And to the great women and guys at a 
> Mac shop in LA, who without much ceremony cracked my well protected hyper-new MacBook Pro and worked on it shortly 
> after somehow some diet soda made its way onto the keyboard.
>
> Thanks and my best regards.
>
> Steve.
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