The idea of fully homomorphic encryption is that you can do processing on encrypted data without actually having the decryption key. Instead of sending your data unencrypted, you would encrypt your data with your own private key and send it to the cloud. So from the user's perspective, nothing changes. You're just sending data and getting a response. But the difference is now the data is encrypted end to end. It's encrypted when you sent it. And at no point whatsoever, the private key is sent anywhere.
In this week’s episode, Anna revisits the topic of FHE with Rand Hindi, CEO at Zama. FHE stands for Fully Homomorphic Encryption, a cryptosystem that allows for computation to occur on encrypted inputs.
They discuss the FHE landscape, what specific use cases it is ideal for, where the technology is at and how FHE differs from MPC and ZK. They also explore some of the nuances of the different types of approaches to FHE to achieve this cryptographic environment where one can do computation in a truly private manner.
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Today's episode is sponsored by Anoma.
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