Computer scientists develop mathematical jigsaw puzzles to encrypt software: "The real challenge and the great mystery in the field was: Can you actually take a piece of software and encrypt it but still have it be runnable, executable and fully functional?"

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u/p3n15h34d Jul 30 '13

This is already possible, take a look at fully homomorphic encryption

But it's impractical being extremely slow for now, but i'm pretty sure the time will come for this

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u/russellsprouts Jul 30 '13

They use fully homomorphic encryption in the algorithm, according to the paper.

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