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At a previous job we used to rent a fair number of servers from companies we couldn't trust (and even if we did, some had security practices so bad that we coul
by EamonnMR 4y ago
At a previous job we used to rent a fair number of servers from companies we couldn't trust (and even if we did, some had security practices so bad that we couldn't be sure they didn't, for example, leave easily exploited backdoors on our boxes. We sunk a fair bit of thought into how we could get some use out of that spare compute we were paying for. Some day, maybe that problem could be solved with FHE, if an efficient scheme could be achieved. Though I'd prefer, in the future, to never be renting shady or insecure servers I suppose.
- neilmovva 4y agoYes, we all place a lot of trust in cloud vendors today. FHE is a way to move the trust boundary back to the client - let the server be as malicious or insecure as it wants. Raw compute could even become much cheaper, since any machine anywhere can be a supplier in the market for untrusted CPU time.