This is major news! We've been trying to have untrusted parties perform computations on sensitive data for a while: if you can encrypt your data, and map-reduc

This is major news! We've been trying to have untrusted parties perform computations on sensitive data for a while: if you can encrypt your data, and map-reduce it on untrusted machines but non-malicious machines, and come out with results, that's pretty big. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption