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by ohazi 1703 days ago
The developer would just query the sensitive field either immediately or at a seemingly reasonable moment (along with dozens of other sensitive and non-sensitive fields), put everything into a blob, and then send it to the server as an opaque web request to some innocuous looking endpoint like POST /login.

You either have to completely trust the developer today and forever after, or you need to make some fundamental advancements in homomorphic cryptography. "Secure data store that can be queried with a permissions box" doesn't work.