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Re:Homomorphic encryption implementation by CHY872 on Thursday May 22, 2014 @07:13PM (#7787143)
I somehow can't reply to your other post - but this isn't proposing a model of computation that allows you to perform those operations (if x1 == 5) - that would defeat the purpose. The goal is to allow you to perform some commonly used operations (matrix multiplications etc) in a zero knowledge way. Checking for equality would just destroy the encryption.
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Re:Homomorphic encryption implementation by sillysaurus3 on Thursday May 22, 2014 @10:08PM (#7787669)
No, FHE supports arbitrary computation. That's the point of FHE.

You may be thinking of HE. HE only allows add and mult operations. FHE extends HE to perform arbitrary computation.

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