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by amelius 821 days ago
Perhaps we should do the crypto in constant time, and run all other applications using homomorphic encryption?
2 comments

FHE is unusably slow even for the simplest operations, and there is no reason to be sure it will ever be fast enough for any normal computing.
Disabling all hardware optimizations becomes an option long before homomorphic encryption becomes an option, performance-wise.