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Hi all, founder of Evervault here — we're building encryption infrastructure for developers. Cryptography is at the core of what we do. Evervault Papers is our
by ShaneCurran 6y ago
Hi all, founder of Evervault here — we're building encryption infrastructure for developers.
Cryptography is at the core of what we do. Evervault Papers is our way of continuing the legacy of cryptography giants like Shannon.
We're posting one new paper on evervault.com/papers each week and this is our first issue. Subscribe to get a cryptography paper in your inbox every Thursday!
- sohkamyung 6y agoProviding an RSS feed would be nice.
- ShaneCurran 6y agoGood suggestion! We'll set this up.
- ShaneCurran 6y agoHey, just to follow up on this: we shipped RSS for Papers. https://evervault.com/api/rss https://evervault.com/api/rss Let us know if you've any questions/issues with it!
- LMYahooTFY 6y agoJesus that was quick lol. Great job!
- efxz 6y agoShane, I suggest You to focus on the product and customers, not on the papers. With < 10 people You can't do much, and I think personally You take to many tasks on Your own... Hire people and keep growing! Wish You success!
- betterunix2 6y agoCan you explain what exactly you do, other than saying that cryptography is at its core? Your website is a bit light on details. You say you encrypt data and can process encrypted data -- are you talking about TEEs, MPC, FHE, or something else entirely?
- ShaneCurran 6y agoSure! We build tooling that lets developers encrypt data before it hits their infrastructure (Relay) and which lets them process that encrypted data at a later date (Cages). We manage keys, but we don't store data. All crypto operations and encrypted data processing happens inside TEEs (AWS Nitro Enclaves, specifically [0]). Using Relay, you can pass data on to trusted third parties over TLS. With Cages, you can deploy custom code inside a TEE which can process data in whichever way you need. For developers who don't want plaintext data on our infrastructure, we also provide SDKs which let them encrypt data using our PKI scheme — on their own infrastructure. [0]: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/aws-announces-general-availability-nitro-enclaves/ https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-det...
- betterunix2 6y agoThanks! I design MPC protocols for real-world applications and like to stay up to date on what else is happening out there.
- kyoji 6y agoI've implemented a toy version of a 3+ MPC protocol for graduate school, specifically private set intersection. Would you mind sharing what kind of MPC protocols you design and if you can for what types of applications? I don't often see this discussed on HN and my curiosity is piqued!
- betterunix2 6y agoTwo-party set intersection and variants (intersection-sum, etc.), federated learning (secure aggregation) and its variants, and several things that are not yet public. I also did some work on anonymous trust tokens, which is kind of like a generalization of privacy pass that is meant to replace cookies for conveying e.g. whitelist/blacklist information. For the most part my work involves companies doing some kind of statistical analysis of joint data sets while maintaining some privacy constraint. Some of the work involves analyzing ads effectiveness, some involves public health, some involves machine learning, and there is a long tail of obscure applications that were deployed as a one-off. Resource constraints are the biggest technical challenge, but a bigger problem I and the rest of the people I work with face is lack of awareness or poor understanding of MPC (people often assume it is just a variant of DP, or that it is a blockchain something or other, or that it is totally impractical, etc.).
- criddell 6y agoThank you for not making readers trade their email or sign up for a mailing list to get the paper.