homomorphic
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of homomorphic
Example Sentences
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Dr. Impagliazzo said homomorphic encryption could allow you to provide encrypted financial information to a credit bureau, and the credit bureau to, in turn, calculate your credit score without ever learning anything about you.
From New York Times • Mar. 17, 2021
MIT professor Vinod Vaikuntanathan introduced homomorphic encryption, which produces an encrypted result from encrypted data, allowing the user to get the result without seeing any of the input data.
From Forbes • Mar. 12, 2014
Although homomorphic encryption was suggested in 1979, no one could figure out how to make it work till 2009, and viable implementations such as HELib and HCrypt emerged only recently.
From Forbes • Mar. 12, 2014
IBM claimed that computer scientist Craig Gentry had developed a practical, fully homomorphic system in 2009, but critics said the technology was too complex, slow and impractical for actual use in the cloud.
From Scientific American • Mar. 7, 2014
In "Forms of Flowers," Edition II., page 216, a summary of the transmission of forms in the "homomorphic" unions of P. sinensis is given.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
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