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by bironran 1292 days ago
yeah, FHE isn't, yet, something that can be used in a busy production env. At best I'd say it's a specialized tool, though in my mind it's a toy solution - can work for n=1, possibly for n<(low numbers) but not for large N.
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Totally agree. We're likely going to implement a partially homomorphic solution that allows for some specific queries. We aren't trying to build a general purpose computational environment as the use cases we support don't require arbitrary computation. The data people encrypt with JumpWire is pretty much all strings and the queries on them are mainly doing some sort of substring matching (mainly prefix/suffix).