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by swordswinger12 3203 days ago
The short answer is yes. There are some (slow) ways to fix this: https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/goldwasser-we.p...
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Their construction relies on two unproven conjectures.

In particular the "Extractable Witness Encryption" conjecture is impossible under a reasonable falsifiable assumption: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8587/dba4ff31e8118e9bd5914a...

Under that assumption, general purpose differing-inputs obfuscation cannot exist.

The way I understand it, FHE being applicable to anything other than "unwrapping a path through a circuit" seems implausible. Any claims of arbitrary encrypted computation should be viewed with the highest dose of skepticism.