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by rgbrgb 3655 days ago
So cool. This is the first time I've heard of homomorphic encryption. In my case, Open Listings has a lot of real estate data that we're not allowed to vend programmatically (sale prices, list prices, property characteristics). It would be interesting to be able to release this data in a legally encrypted form and let data scientists train predictors. We currently have an offer creation API that's being used by algorithmic investors but they have to get their data to decide what to bid on from another source. My immediate questions maybe someone here will know the answer to...

1) Is it legal to vend a dataset that is encrypted this way if you're not allowed to vend the original? The OP implies that it is, but that seems too good to be true.

2) Is there software purpose-built for this type of thing? What's good in this domain? Our stack is mostly ruby but we're polyglots.