A team of Microsoft researchers led by Seny Kamara claims to have been successful at recovering a substantial amount of data from health records stored in CryptDB (PDF), a database technology that ...

For the last three decades or so, the big problem in using encryption hasn’t been whether strongly encrypted files can be cracked. The problem remains that to actually do anything with encrypted ...

Researchers who developed a set of attacks against encryption schemes in CryptDB—a technology seen by many as key in creating secure cloud-based database applications—faced a rebuttal from one of the ...