Intel is Developing a New Type of Encryption to Deter Hackers

Intel has signed an agreement with the US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to join its Data Protection in Virtual Environments (DPRIVE) program. This program aims to make cloud encryption tougher to crack by enabling fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).

Unlike other encryption methods, homomorphic encryption allows you to work on encrypted files without decrypting them first. The results are similar to what you get when working with unencrypted data.

Other than Intel, Microsoft is also a key player when it comes to the cloud ecosystem and is a homomorphic encryption partner with the DARPA on its DPRIVE program.

Once Intel develops this technology in partnership with the US government’s agencies, it will be tested in Microsoft’s cloud services including Microsoft Azure and JEDI. This will also be done alongside the US government.

This multi-year program also represents cross-team efforts at different groups in Intel including its Design Engineering Group, Data Platforms Group, Intel Labs, and more. These groups will be working together to figure out how to do computing on encrypted data without having access to any decryption keys.

This should make it tougher for cyber attackers to get access to data they are not meant to be tinkering with.

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