With the widespread use of cloud storage and computing, the need for privacy-enhancing technologies has accelerated tremendously. Traditional encryption methods allow data to be stored in encrypted form, but even simple analytics require the cloud server to have a secret key or the data owner to download, decrypt and locally analyse the data. Homomorphic encryption allows direct computation on encrypted data without a server needing the secret key. The result remains encrypted, accessible to the owner with a secret key. The EU-funded enCRYPTON project will enhance the innovation capacity of Sabancı University in Turkey in privacy-enhancing technologies leveraging homomorphic encryption through twinning with world-leading universities in the field.
