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For many businesses that's not really possible. For your standard e-commerce website the majority of the data you have is what people are ordering. How do you e
by openasocket 7y ago
For many businesses that's not really possible. For your standard e-commerce website the majority of the data you have is what people are ordering. How do you end-to-end encrypt that? What about internal documents and memos? User names and email addresses (not as valuable as passwords but still useful if you join it against other data sets)?
- zelly 7y agoYes, it's very hard. They would have to completely re-architecture their systems. For e-commerce, the client can sign his or her address with the shipper's public key, so that only the shipper and the recipient are guaranteed to know the address. To the user, this could happen transparently without any change in UX, where the e-commerce website acts like a keyserver. For email addresses, phone numbers, names, etc. it is more difficult. You can't just store a hash of the email address if you want to ever be able to email your customers. Internal documents can be more trivially end-to-end encrypted. Imagine the whole company shares a WhatsApp group chat. Nobody has to ever hold a plaintext copy of an internal document. Only permit access on company devices which hold the keys in hardware.