[hn_throwaway_99]

My understanding (which is admittedly very little) though is that homomorphic encryption requires many times more computations compared to running on unencrypted data, so that could dampen it's usefulness.

[throwaway894345]

Perhaps, but there is a LOT of unused capacity out there.

[spicybright]

It's less of a resource problem and more of an allocation/networking problem though.

Most problems worth sourcing out requires a lot of data, and piping that through a home network connection to a "meh" CPU and back isn't that useful.

Even if you spend time divvying it up, I can't imagine it would be easier/cost effecitve than just spinning up an AWS node to get it done.

[Jhsto]

It indeed seems to be: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.01945.pdf