All it needs for adoption is a compelling use-case.
So, I can't help but wonder if the current furore over vaccine passports (or inevitable international adoption, depending on your viewpoint) has influenced the timing of this announcement...
People have been concerned about security "in the cloud" for a while now. Of course, implementing a function such as this is one thing, being able to prove that your cloud provider actually uses it (rather than pretends to) will be quite another. Do you really know that the CentOS VM you just set up was actually encrypted and is using this system to run, with the key somehow obtained by a method by which the cloud provider has no access?
(And if you're about to say "But it's obviously not going to be for
Full disclosure, I work at IBM on FHE. This is a gross simplification but here goes! The secret data that you want to protect is encrypted by effectively hiding it in a massive polynomial with special modular arithmetic properties based on the private key. Only the person doing the encryption has this key. The FHE foundational operations work on these massive polynomials. So the processor who does the computing only sees huge polynomials. The agent who does the processing of the large polynomials cannot te
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All it needs for adoption is a compelling use-case.
So, I can't help but wonder if the current furore over vaccine passports (or inevitable international adoption, depending on your viewpoint) has influenced the timing of this announcement...
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People have been concerned about security "in the cloud" for a while now. Of course, implementing a function such as this is one thing, being able to prove that your cloud provider actually uses it (rather than pretends to) will be quite another. Do you really know that the CentOS VM you just set up was actually encrypted and is using this system to run, with the key somehow obtained by a method by which the cloud provider has no access?
(And if you're about to say "But it's obviously not going to be for
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Uh, the whole point is that you supply encrypted data. If they dont use FHE, you won't get anything useful back. They never get the key.
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So how does the CPU process the data it if it doesn't have a key?
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Sort of a spread-spectrum, hiding information in the noise type of thing.