DARPA Awards Contracts For Encrypted Data Processing
By Kelsey Atherton on March 11, 2021 at 11:15 AM Keeping data encrypted as it is processed could mitigate the harm from cyber intrusions, even by determined adversaries. ALBUQUERQUE: This week, DARPA announced the award of several contracts that will let computers process encrypted data, instead of having to decrypt it prior to processing. That could drastically improve the security and functionality of cloud-based processing for the military, because data won’t have to switch constantly between being protected encrypted forms and vulnerable decrypted ones. On March 8, DARPA announced ...