Future of Privacy: Searchable Encryption
Event Information
Description
We believe that everyone is born with the right to privacy. Privacy is what makes us unique, and what makes each of us an individual person. However, as we move into the world of clouds and AI, privacy is becoming increasingly difficult to protect. Encryption is widely touted as the silver bullet in protecting privacy, but encryption is probably one of most user-unfriendly technologies ever invented because not only you have to deal with encryption keys but also encrypted data are random, non-searchable and unusable.
What if you can search on your encrypted data in the cloud without compromising its key or search query? What if performance is no longer an issue when you search on encrypted data? What if all the data in the cloud are encrypted?
The purpose of this talk is to give a beginner’s introduction to Encrypted Search and how they work and how the future of privacy is based upon the combination of searchable encryption and blockchain. You do not need to have prior knowledge of cryptography to understand this talk because we believe that the purpose of cryptography is to empower everyone and to protect the privacy of everyone. Encrypt everything and search anything!
Speaker:
Ed Yu is the Founder of StrongSalt, the Privacy API on a decentralized encrypted data network that makes cloud as private as your thumb drive.
Ed Yu was the founding engineer of FireEye and has also worked as VP and Director of Engineering in various enterprise and software companies. He has worked both in startups and large corporations such as Oracle, Sun, SGI, and McAfee.Ed graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science.Ed loves scuba diving, skydiving, and tai chi but with his current busy life, he spends more time annoying his coworkers with uncommented Haskell code.