It's been interesting to watch this story roll downhill. It started out as "fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices." http://portal.acm.org/citatio

It's been interesting to watch this story roll downhill. It started out as "fully homomorphic encryption using ideal lattices." http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1536414.1536440 http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1536414.1536440 Then it got covered by the tech press: "Do calculations on encrypted data." http://www.ddj.com/security/218101417 http://www.ddj.com/security/218101417 And is now in Forbes and probably other publications for highbrow laypeople: "IBM's Blindfolded Calculator." This process has been talked about elsewhere: http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174 http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174