Mathematical Puzzle Solved, Enables Unlimited Analysis of Encrypted Data

I found this Schneier post (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/07/homomorphic_e...) from 3.5 years ago responding a seemingly identical IBM press release and explaining why it's an impractical solution.

This is major news!

We've been trying to have untrusted parties perform computations on sensitive data for a while: if you can encrypt your data, and map-reduce it on untrusted machines but non-malicious machines, and come out with results, that's pretty big.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption

There's no news here. In fact is says ADVERTISEMENT right across the top.

The author of the article is "IBM".

I've never been to scientificcomputing.com computing before, but now now have a pretty solid view of their trustworthiness.

It certainly read like an ad for IBM.