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Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by amenghra on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:09PM (#14949119)
This is very interesting from an academic/theory point of view.

There currently aren't a lot practical use cases where we can afford a performance loss of ~100,000,000x (your homomorphic crypto algorithm is going to run on the order of ~Hz on a ~Ghz CPU).

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Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by tgtweak on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:48PM (#14949497)
There are applications for it, despite the speed penalty.
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Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by dsacco on Monday August 07, 2017 @02:35PM (#14949996)
What are those applications?
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Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by tgtweak on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:21PM (#14952105)
Any application where you need an untrusted third party to do operations on encrypted data, without them getting access to the data itself.
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Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by dsacco on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:51PM (#14952584)
Right but that's nearly tautological...I meant specific applications that can tolerate the massive performance sacrifice.
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