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articles/azure-government/documentation-government-overview-wwps.md

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# Azure for secure worldwide public sector cloud adoption
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To help you adopt homomorphic encryption, [Microsoft SEAL](https://www.microsoft.com/research/project/microsoft-seal/) provides a set of encryption libraries that allow computations to be performed directly on encrypted data. This approach enables you to build end-to-end encrypted data storage and compute services where you never need to share your encryption keys with the cloud service. Microsoft SEAL aims to make homomorphic encryption easy to use and available to everyone. It provides a simple and convenient API and comes with several detailed examples demonstrating how the library can be used correctly and securely.
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We also announced a [multi-year collaboration with Intel and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-collaborate-microsoft-darpa-program.html) to lead the commercialization of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). This technology will enable computation on always-encrypted data or cryptograms. With FHE, the data never needs to be decrypted, reducing the potential for cyber threats.
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Data encryption in the cloud is an important risk mitigation requirement expected by government customers worldwide. As described in this section, Azure helps you protect your data through its entire lifecycle whether at rest, in transit, or even in use. Moreover, Azure offers comprehensive encryption key management to help you control your keys in the cloud, including key permissions, rotation, deletion, and so on. End-to-end data encryption using advanced ciphers is fundamental to ensuring confidentiality and integrity of your data in the cloud. However, many customers also expect assurances regarding any potential customer data access by Microsoft engineers for service maintenance, customer support, or other scenarios. These controls are described in the next section.
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## Insider data access

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