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   by dowem 6y ago

   Thanks for passing on that reference @onepointsixC. Yourself and the parent poster might be interested in a webinar we posted on YouTube which talks about those slides from one of the paper authors (Flavio) and yours truly. That slide is ab
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   by dowem 6y ago

   Thanks for helping the conversation along jlokier! I thought since you mentioned the database concepts in your response you might be interested in checking the database example in our toolkit. It is really not a literal database but rather
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   by dowem 6y ago

   (Reminder I am a maintainer of the toolkit and an IBMer, opinions are my own, etc. ) This is a pretty new field with people just starting to take it seriously for large problems. It seems from what I have seen in experiments, there can be b
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   by dowem 6y ago

   The toolkits are absolutely free to download and use and modify. When I say free I mean both gratis (no cost) and it is MIT licensed for the code IBM provided. We would love to see community contributions. Once downloaded you do not need ne
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   by dowem 6y ago

   Hi Hackers! This is Eli (one of the authors of the toolkit). I wanted to make sure you all know you can check out the code. It is freely available on GitHub as linked by the OP. The press this weekend in places like Ars talks about trials,
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   by dowem 6y ago

   The library the toolkit is based on is called HElib and the developers (myself included) did not have the bandwidth to port anything to Windows. The core library and dependencies are Linux native. As it is, we are a bit behind on the Linux
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   by dowem 6y ago

   Sure, tt is a first release integrating the HElib library, dependencies, and a working sample project that you just click the play button to get running that you can import directly from git into the platform IDE of choice. The intent is fo
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   by dowem 6y ago

   The latter is more like it. It is a case where you want something computed, like the sum of your paychecks over the last year, Or some credit card risk evaluation thing, or if you have markers for cancer in your genome data based on your pe
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   by dowem 6y ago

   In the algorithm implemented the search key is matched against all rows in the database. There is no short circuit evaluation and there cannot be... you cannot compare an encrypted value to a plaintext value and know they are equivalent wit
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    by dowem 6y ago

    I am one of the developers, so I wanted to respond. Imagine you want to search for a coffee or restaurant nearby. You can now use an app which cares about your privacy by encrypting your location, and encrypting the intent of your food sear