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Open-sourcing homomorphic hashing to secure update propagation

Mar 1, 2019Kevin Lewi, Wonho Kim, Ilya Maykov
Open-sourcing homomorphic hashing to secure update propagation
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Introduced LtHash, a homomorphic hashing algorithm based on lattice cryptography, for secure and scalable update propagation in configuration management systems. This addresses the challenges of maintaining data integrity across a large network of peers by enabling efficient recomputation of database hashes after updates, without iterating over the entire database. The implementation is open-sourced in Folly.

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