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by heavenlyblue 2890 days ago
Unless the database is also encrypted and provides the same homomorphism against reverse index queries.
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In which case you are no longer talking about FHE. With FHE the server receives a ciphertext query and produces a ciphertext output, without ever seeing any plaintexts (not even the result of a reverse index query).
If the database was encrypted, you would need a different encrypted database for every user - again impractical.