ooli3@sopuli.xyz to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryptionboingboing.netexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down12
arrow-up194arrow-down1external-link"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryptionboingboing.netooli3@sopuli.xyz to Privacy@lemmy.ml · 2 days agomessage-square20fedilink
minus-squareicelimit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours agoI understand that this is an analogy, but I feel this also weakens the encryption somewhat, as now a potential attacker could do a simple binary search on the encrypted data to deduce the absolute balance.
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·15 hours agoPresumably the data is still encrypted with a user-specific key.
I understand that this is an analogy, but I feel this also weakens the encryption somewhat, as now a potential attacker could do a simple binary search on the encrypted data to deduce the absolute balance.
Presumably the data is still encrypted with a user-specific key.