Cloud security and encrypted collaboration are the focus of Microsoft Research’s Encrypted Spaces project. ETIH edtech news examines how zero-knowledge proofs, end-to-end encryption and verifiable databases could protect shared documents, messages and files while keeping plaintext user data hidden f Microsoft Research has introduced Encrypted Spaces, an active research project exploring how people could collaborate through cloud applications without giving the servers hosting those applications access to their plaintext data. The project is deve... [6475 chars]