Intel has joined DARPA’s DPRIVE program to develop an accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption.
Intel has announced that it has signed an agreement with the US government’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to join its Data Protection in Virtual Environments (DPRIVE) program to develop an accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). Unlike with other types of encryption, FHE enables encrypted data to be processed without first having to decrypt it. In addition to Intel, Microsoft is the key cloud ecosystem and homomorphic encryption partner working with DARPA on its DPRIVE program. Once the technology is developed, it will be tested in the software giant’s cloud offerings including Microsoft Azure and the Microsoft JEDI cloud with the US government.
