The CIA is not in the habit of discussing its clandestine operations, but the agency’s purpose is clear enough. As then-chief James Woolsey said in a 1994 speech to former intelligence operatives: “What we really exist for is stealing secrets.” Indeed, the agency declined to comment for this article, but over the course of more Read more about An insight into CIA burglary[…]

Homomorphic encryption is where one party (Alice) encrypts data and passes it to another (Bob) with an encrypted key. This means that Bob can’t read the data, but can perform computations on it, and pass the encrypted results (which Bob can’t read) to Alice, so that she can decrypt it with her key. This is Read more about A good explanation of homomorphic encryption[…]