Ask HN: What is the state of homomorphic encryption?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35679574

by politician • 3 years ago

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Is homomorphic cryptography still academic or is it ready for production use cases? Who are the leading companies?

warrenm• 3 years ago

The Wikipedia page does not seem to have been updated recently - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption#Fully_h...

j2kun2• 3 years ago

I work on FHE at Google. We don't yet have production clients, but we're basically working to get it production ready and find the right use cases. See my blog post at https://jeremykun.com/2023/02/13/googles-fully-homomorphic-e... for some more details on what our tools looked like about a year ago (though I only wrote about it this year).

Other companies involved in FHE are Zama, Duality, Intel, Inpher, Cryptolab, and a handful of companies working on hardware accelerators. In my view, the one company that has a bona-fide production application is Cryptolab. As I understand it, their work is used to do private contact tracing for COVID in South Korea.

You may also want to check out the two yearly conferences on this topic: https://homomorphicencryption.org/ and https://fhe.org/, the latter posted videos of all their talks from the meeting last month.

j2kun2• 3 years ago

Also see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34783447 for the discussion of the above blog post on HN.

Ask HN: What is the state of homomorphic encryption?

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