This is good info. We created a homomorphic encryption library that lets multiple parties work on data securely using conventional statistics while keeping it private. We believe this is useful especially in time where data privacy and ownership becomes more and more important.
Hi Elsa, in this article I have more examples: www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/11/15/what-is-homomorphic-encryption-and-why-is-it-so-transformative/#1acf54a7e939
If you have data that must be kept absolutely secret, but you don't have the hardware to actually process it, you could upload the encrypted data to a hosting provider that does have the hardware, have it perform the computations that you ask, and get back the result without the provider ever knowing what the data was. This could be important for financial or health data, or for companies that need to process information about a product they're building. It may be important on a personal basis, knowing that you can store anything and ask a service to manipulate it while knowing that the nature of the data will remain hidden from the service that updates it. One intriguing possibility is in voting. One could theoretically cast their vote and know that their vote was accurately counted because the voter could see their own vote but no one else could. They would provide a piece of encrypted data--their vote--and it would be added to the aggregate data--also encrypted--in such a way that the end result could be trusted by everyone. While I'm not a proponent of the idea at this time (there are too many other variables to account for right now), it could lay a path toward more trustworthy elections.
That is such a smart question! Imagine that you could get a binary answer to a question about the encrypted data "count all the records that contain 'James' " - now you can imagine a result set that has analytics, or computed. The homomorphic encryption allows for that binary question to be answered
Thank you for sharing!!!! I have 2 questions: take the example of asking google map of where is a coffee shop - if google, the service provider doesn't know my question, and the data that comes with my questions, how does it recommend to me? Also, could it be possible for google to reverse engineer its recommendation to me to infer my locations, the time, etc. ? Thanks so much!
Okay, I'm far from an expert, but I would assume Google would compute the recommendation, which would still be encrypted, then return it to you. You can then decrypt the recommendation to reveal the plaintext of the recommendation. Again, I am no expert, I'm just interested in learning about maths, but this would be my hunch. IDK about the reverse engineering part, I assumed that was taken care of when I read 'Encryption', since that's basically the first requirement right?
This is such a brilliant concept. The AI god wears a veil of ignorance when computing your inquiry. It sends you useful data without knowing anything about you as an individual. This may be the holy grail of the crypto market.
This is good info. We created a homomorphic encryption library that lets multiple parties work on data securely using conventional statistics while keeping it private. We believe this is useful especially in time where data privacy and ownership becomes more and more important.
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Can anyone explain what homomorphic commitment schemes are?
I would like to know the real scenarios that HE is applied, can someone help me?
Hi Elsa, in this article I have more examples: www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/11/15/what-is-homomorphic-encryption-and-why-is-it-so-transformative/#1acf54a7e939
If you have data that must be kept absolutely secret, but you don't have the hardware to actually process it, you could upload the encrypted data to a hosting provider that does have the hardware, have it perform the computations that you ask, and get back the result without the provider ever knowing what the data was. This could be important for financial or health data, or for companies that need to process information about a product they're building. It may be important on a personal basis, knowing that you can store anything and ask a service to manipulate it while knowing that the nature of the data will remain hidden from the service that updates it. One intriguing possibility is in voting. One could theoretically cast their vote and know that their vote was accurately counted because the voter could see their own vote but no one else could. They would provide a piece of encrypted data--their vote--and it would be added to the aggregate data--also encrypted--in such a way that the end result could be trusted by everyone. While I'm not a proponent of the idea at this time (there are too many other variables to account for right now), it could lay a path toward more trustworthy elections.
Really don’t understand ! How make computation without knowing the information ! What portion of data will be computed in this condition ?
That is such a smart question! Imagine that you could get a binary answer to a question about the encrypted data "count all the records that contain 'James' " - now you can imagine a result set that has analytics, or computed. The homomorphic encryption allows for that binary question to be answered
Thank you for sharing!!!! I have 2 questions: take the example of asking google map of where is a coffee shop - if google, the service provider doesn't know my question, and the data that comes with my questions, how does it recommend to me? Also, could it be possible for google to reverse engineer its recommendation to me to infer my locations, the time, etc. ? Thanks so much!
Okay, I'm far from an expert, but I would assume Google would compute the recommendation, which would still be encrypted, then return it to you. You can then decrypt the recommendation to reveal the plaintext of the recommendation.
Again, I am no expert, I'm just interested in learning about maths, but this would be my hunch.
IDK about the reverse engineering part, I assumed that was taken care of when I read 'Encryption', since that's basically the first requirement right?
This is such a brilliant concept. The AI god wears a veil of ignorance when computing your inquiry. It sends you useful data without knowing anything about you as an individual. This may be the holy grail of the crypto market.