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Newline Software Announces Breakthrough in Cloud Computing Privacy

Current secure cloud applications encrypt data with a key and store the data as a 'blob' in the cloud, or a single large collection of data. This does not allow granular access to or querying for the existence of data in the cloud. This presents a problem because these applications need to create and manage local catalogs to reference encrypted data.

Newline Software solves this problem using its own advancements in homomorphic computing to provide granular access inside encrypted data. OPTIC allows cloud applications to make requests through its Homomorphic Data Service (HDS) to query, write, and read encrypted data. Furthermore, Newline Software has developed a Homomorphic File System (HFS) that allows cloud applications to consume encrypted files and directories. For example, if a cloud application requests a file from HFS, HFS using OPTIC returns the file in encrypted form and decrypts it only after it is safely on the user's computer.

"ISVs can use OPTIC to achieve 100% data privacy in their cloud applications," says Kory Gill, Co-Founder of Newline Software. "OPTIC eliminates the need to create local indexes for blobs in the cloud, since data can be queried directly with full privacy. OPTIC is configured to encrypt and query encrypted data as granular as 1 character and up to 1M characters."

OPTIC is the result of a three-year effort to provide complete privacy for the data stored in the cloud for its cloud-based backup & restore service. While the industry believes full homomorphic search will not be practical for at least 40 years, with OPTIC applications in the cloud can have exact homomorphic search today.

OPTIC is ideally suited for a wide range of cloud applications, including:

• Distributed homomorphic storage
• Cloud backup and restore
• Cloud-based application storage (email, contacts, password lists)
• Cloud-based collaboration (calendars, project management, workflow systems)

About Newline Software, Inc.

Newline Software is the creator of Exact and the OPTIC technology. Exact is the first and only cloud-based backup & restore service with 100% Data Privacy. Exact ensures your irreplaceable files are protected in the event of a computer hardware failure, theft, or disaster. OPTIC, Online Privacy Technology In the Cloud, allows developers to securely query, write, and read encrypted data to and from any cloud data store without the cloud having any knowledge of that data. Founded in 2008, Newline Software is located in Redmond, Washington. For more information, please visit http://3exact.com/optic.

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