CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy

Re:CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy by danbruc on Monday April 22, 2013 @02:51PM (#5591070)

»CipherCloud's product is NOT deterministic.« No, really, it is not. They say it three times. Who has not at least once dreamed of having your data processed by a non-deterministic system?

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Re:CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy by edmccard on Monday April 22, 2013 @03:40PM (#5591351)

I think they are claiming that they are not using deterministic encrpytion[1], which can be used to allow searches of encrypted data, not that their software is "non-deterministic".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_encryption

EDIT: Or maybe you know that and I missed the joke.

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Re:CipherCloud Responds to the Crypto StackExchange Controversy by danbruc on Monday April 22, 2013 @04:35PM (#5591621)

I know the difference between probabilistic and deterministic encryption but I did not think of it at the time I read the PDF and posted the comment. »[Our] product is NOT deterministic.« instead of »Our encryption algorithm is not deterministic.« tricked my brain into visualizing their software as a random number generator. So it is good that you point that out, I misinterpreted their statement.

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