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This is a pretty cynical take. I don't think we can possibly foresee all the advances that practical fully homomorphic encryption could provide. It could make i
by hacknat 6y ago
This is a pretty cynical take. I don't think we can possibly foresee all the advances that practical fully homomorphic encryption could provide. It could make it easier for under siege communities in repressed 3rd world countries to run fully online programs that can't be shutdown or blocked. There are numerous ways in which it could be helpful or harmful.
The point is that we don't know what's going to come out ahead of time.
- some_furry 6y ago> It could make it easier for under siege communities in repressed 3rd world countries to run fully online programs that can't be shutdown or blocked. How can you expect people being targeted by hostile nation states to trust obfuscated closed-source software to protect them from said nation states? Binary obfuscation techniques to evade signature detection are a dime a dozen. The only time this intersects with homomorphic encryption is when you're dealing with DRM and other privacy-adverse technologies.
- hacknat 6y ago> Binary obfuscation techniques to evade signature detection are a dime a dozen. Fully encrypted programs that can perform and can run on an untrusted platform are not. I think you may have a little more reading to do.
- some_furry 6y agoFully encrypted programs can do things without the end user having any way of verifying that they're not backdoored or behaving otherwise maliciously. (As a reminder, I'm not saying that FHE is inherently harmful. I take issue with their marketing spin on FHE as the "Crowl Jewel" is all. The motivations for companies to develop FHE are almost always in line with DRM, which is strictly speaking adverse to user freedom.)