New Fujitsu Labs tech can do batch searches of encrypted data

If snooping by the U.S. National Security Agency isn’t enough to make you worry about your privacy, Japan’s Fujitsu Laboratories has developed a fast method to perform secret searches of data that is encrypted.

The technology makes use of homomorphic encryption, which allows for operations to be performed on encrypted data without having to decrypt it.

Fujitsu developed a batch search method that can rifle through 16,000 characters per second using any search term without the need for pre-registering keywords.

The lab hopes to commercialize the technology by 2015, billing it as a useful analytical tool in an increasingly data-driven world. The researchers said it’s one that will in fact protect privacy.

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