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by mswphd 11 days ago
this is only true in the IND-CPA model for most "practical" FHE work. So a more precise way to describe things is "a server who faithfully performs the task given to them does not gain any sort of insight" (perhaps with an additional caveat about decryption failures).
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In the case of single key FHE with server-side processing (the demo setup), the server can never gains any insight, even as an active adversary that can arbitrarily deviate from the protocol because it only has access to public evaluation keys and ciphertexts. The worst it can do is return tempered output to the client, but it doesn't help it learning anything about the client request.