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Re:Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem by narinxas on Saturday November 18, 2023 @03:12PM (#38323854)
there are much cheaper ways, chief amongst them is to use paper and pencils
Re:Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem by godelski on Saturday November 18, 2023 @05:03PM (#38325048)
How do people with pen and paper operate on 10k pieces of data? Which is honestly a rather small number. There's a reason we use computers and why statistics accelerated after its invention.
Re:Cryptographers Solve Decades-Old Privacy Problem by jkhdigital on Saturday November 18, 2023 @11:51PM (#38329129)
There are two use cases: (1) when the computation is proprietary so the user can’t run it, or (2) when the user doesn’t even want to trust their own hardware.