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Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by hmottestad on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:46PM (#14949476)
The point is to be able to give encrypted data to a third party and have them do operations on that data (ex. sum all the values) and give you an encrypted result back.

tldr. computations in the cloud with encrypted, private data

Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by michwill on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:58PM (#14949592)
Yes, I understand. I was thinking about:

a) smart contracts controlling something within the encrypted data based on publicly available data;

b) encrypted key-value store where you traverse the tree structure based on encrypted query and encrypted tree buckets, but get a publicly available result about which bucket is next (similarly to how it was done in Arx paper using garbled circuits).

Re:TFHE: Fast Fully-Homomorphic Encryption Over the Torus by mSparks43 on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:38PM (#14952218)
because, obviously, summing all the values is something you couldnt do yourself?