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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by 0points on Saturday December 28, 2024 @06:58PM (#42536047)
> It's the equivalent of sending an MD5 of your password somewhere

a) MD5 is reversible, it just cost GPU time to brute force

b) It is unproven that their implementation is irreversible

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Re:Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15 by fragmede on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:39PM (#42536954)
BFV has been proven to be irreversible, and Apple open sourced their Swift library implementing it, so it's not totally unproven.

https://github.com/apple/swift-homomorphic-encryption

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