Greek Researcher

Protecting online transactions against hackers often involves a loss of user friendliness. But that may no longer be the case since an EU-financed project is finding novel ways to strike a balance between privacy and utility.

Despite advances in computer security, data remains vulnerable to hackers. Although contemporary cryptographic techniques guard transactions, they often do not provide an adequate balance between the privacy and the utility of stored data. In fact, data utility is often grafted on top of the cryptographic mechanisms through monolithic key management.