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Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

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Re: Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

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> The statements made in the linked description of this cannot be true, such as Google not being able to read what you sent them and not being able to read what they responded with. The beautiful thing is: they are :-)

If Google’s services can respond to queries, they must be able to read them. If A uses a cereal box cipher and B has a cereal box cipher, B can can make sense of encoded messages A sends them, A can ask about the weather, and B can reply with an encoded response that A can decode and read. B is able to read A’s decoded query, and B knew what the weather was, and responded to A with that information. Security is not m…

This is pointless, but I'll try anyway.

Yes, they can read both. But it's just gobbledygook to them. If you send them a "nonsense" query, they can reply with a "nonsense" response which is actually carefully computed to be something you can make sense of. But they can't make sense of it other than that it should be a relevant to the query you sent them.

Re: Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet

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Its like, python can be 400 times slower than C++, but people still use it.

If Python devs/users had to actually use all pure Python libraries, no C bindings or Rust bindings, no RPC to binaries written in faster languages, it would get dropped for a ton of use cases, absolutely including its most prominent ones (machine learning, bioinformatics, numeric analysis, etc.).

It would probably especially include those before most others. The best thing about Python IMO is the FFI and the ecosystem built around it.
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