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Strangely enough, I know the answer to that, if memory is serving. Homomorphic encryption is where you can compute on the encrypted data without ever decryptin
by floating-io 3y ago
Strangely enough, I know the answer to that, if memory is serving.
Homomorphic encryption is where you can compute on the encrypted data without ever decrypting it.
Logically, it sounds like a pipe dream to me, but apparently it's a thing.
- max_ 3y agoWhy is it a pipe dream I know companies that use it. And it serves their purposes well.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> know companies that use it We can only do a limited set of operations homomorphically. Moreover, it’s more power intensive than conventional computation. In most cases, local computation is the more effective (and secure) solution.
- floating-io 3y agoI said it sounds like one, not that it is one. I don't know enough about the implementation of it to comment intelligently, but logically it seems to me that if you can compute on it, then it's likely to leak the data, or at least some metadata about the data. The truth of the matter may be something other. Life is not always logical.