Comment by acqq

12 years ago

If you would use one-time-pad before storing to the cloud you'd either need to store the very same pad on the cloud, then effectively not needing encryption, or you wouldn't need the cloud, as the amount of the encrypted data would match the amount of the pad data one to one.

And homomorphic encryption is still far from being practical.

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bo1024  12 years ago

Sure, one would more realistically use any standard encryption scheme. Agreed on homomorphic encryption as mentioned in my previous comment. But "impractical" is a far cry from "fundamentally impossible".

  • acqq  12 years ago

    Impractical is in sense "nobody can actually it, only the papers are written about it." Practically impossible to use.