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Re:IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for mac... by cakoose on Friday June 05, 2020 @10:26PM (#23436281)
Is it really that common? I often see HN posts calling for end-to-end encryption, but not homomorphic encryption.

(But even "just" end-to-end encryption is more difficult than many realize.)

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Re:IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for mac... by Andrew_nenakhov on Saturday June 06, 2020 @05:09AM (#23437763)
Most people asking for mandatory e2ee everywhere to protect their privace do so only because they have heard from someone that it is a good idea.

Most often they do not understand the tradeoffs that come with mandatory e2ee (difficult information transfer, easy loss of data, no server-side search, etc), and are not ready to deal with them.

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