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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by TeMPOraL on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:13PM (#34784275)
I feel it's already at the edge of being useful in practice. Compute and memory are cheap, and we're wasting a lot of it - so even with overhead this big, simple calculations wrapped in FHE wouldn't be prohibitively expensive - and may just be useful enough to create new types of software systems.
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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by NovemberWhiskey on Monday February 13, 2023 @09:37PM (#34784514)
7 seconds to add two numbers; that's roughly, what, 10 orders of magnitude slower than without FHE? I'm not sure compute is that cheap.
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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by unshavedyak on Monday February 13, 2023 @10:08PM (#34784736)
It would be interesting to see a whole new generation of writing apps with hyper optimized code. We suddenly go back to the 1950s(?) in relative compute power for apps behind FHE.

Not sure what could be done with it at 7s though hah.

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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by gregschlom on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:05PM (#34785140)
An order of magnitude order of magnitude
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Re:Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler – A Primer by fnordpiglet on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:53PM (#34785463)
It’s orders of magnitude all the way down
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