Scientists pioneer new encryption technology for Google Docs
Summary
Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have come up with a new encryption technology called CipherDocs to secure documents that are sent and stored in the cloud via Google Docs. The researchers, who are based in the Department of Computer Science at TCD, were recently given funding from Enterprise Ireland to commercialise the project. "This can pose problems for organisations and individuals that wish to store sensitive information, such as financial data, project plans or patient records in their documents." And because Google Docs also allows users to share documents and for people to collaboratively edit them, Ennis said the team have provisioned for that. Check out our video interview with Dr Hitesh Tewari and Desmond Ennis here: A look at an Enterprise Ireland-funded project from TCD