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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by Palomides on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:51PM (#34784063)
author shows a program that adds two integers and takes 7 seconds to run, and the way the system processes data results in 20000x the RAM usage
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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by willcipriano on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:52PM (#34784074)
So similar to your average electron app.
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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by nevir on Monday February 13, 2023 @08:54PM (#34784092)
Turns out Electron is SUPER SECURE
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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by xrd on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:35PM (#34784502)
There is something surreal about the last example where you take a Rick Astley video that's 9MB and it becomes 188GB after FHE. That seems like a new category of rick-rolling by some cyberpunk.
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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by tossaway0 on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:50PM (#34784610)
We've complained long enough about complexity in code being the barrier to speed. Now it's processing power once again.

I'll take it if we can rely on the security.

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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by barbazoo on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @01:31AM (#34786166)
> I'll take it if we can rely on the security.

What's a use case here? Will this one day make communication more secure? If so, how?

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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by phkahler on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:10AM (#34786397)
My bet is on digital currency. Your wallet will be able to send and receive from other wallets locally. Not like crypto. No distributed ledger. You will make transactions locally. You can't just alter your balances though because they are encrypted. Not sure how you get data in or out without keys though. FHE will be a part of such currency though.
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