| Notes |
Security and the authentication of the communications are also critical for the Internet, given the ubiquity of electronic platforms and systems in today's world. Cybersecurity, attacks, fishing and leaks are making the news regularly. As policy makers should look at these aspects very seriously and with a long term perspective.
Some of the best known encryption standards used worldwide were invented in Europe. But there is a constant race against hackers, so new techniques keep developing as for example homomorphic cryptography which allows to perform computations on encrypted information without decrypting it, making it more difficult for malware programmers to write viruses. This type of cryptography is many respects revolutionary, since it allows to search in encrypted data, or search and compute over encrypted databases without revealing any personal data. There are also many applications in the area of secure methods for cloud computing, distributed computing and delegation of computation in general, that can be implemented with homomorphic encryption schemes. Computation power is the challenge here but nothing is impossible in the coming era of high performance computing.
|