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by ianandrich 616 days ago
I know this is useful for crypto, but I think think I'm actually more interested in what new modes of remote code running on untrusted platforms this enables.
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That is exactly the reason it's useful for crypto, nodes need to verify the output of code running on other nodes without trusting them.
This scheme in particular is not useful for cryptocurrencies; we already knew how to make efficient zkSNARKs with perfect zero-knowledge before this result. This paper is a beautiful work of theory.
It does seem like the article touches on concerns relevant to homomorphic encryption. Maybe someone knows if there is a connection.