"IARPA explores easy-to-use cryptography"
The Intelligence Advanced Research Project Activity (IARPA) plans to provide a framework through the Homomorphic Encryption Computing Techniques with Overhead Reduction (HECTOR) program, which will serve to help system architects and application developers explore and develop a wide range of secure distributed applications using advanced cryptography methods. The HECTOR program will deliver a set of cryptographic tools in which system architects, application developers, and programmers could use to utilize the most current and advanced cryptographic techniques, without having to already be proficient in cryptophytic approaches. This article further discusses the goal of HECTOR, types of tools that will provided by this program, and potential cryptographic technologies that may be used.