IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for MacOS and iOS; Linux and Android Coming Soon
@kravietz if i'm reading this correctly this is something that would permit more organizations to contribute and share security data without disclosing confidential information? i didn't know FHE was even an option 😂
FHE was always a bit of holy Grail in crypto with the most frequently demanded use scenario being how to search encrypted data.
A bit like password authentication, so how do you confirm password is correct without actually storing it in plaintext. This one was easily solved with hashing, but searching full text data was significantly more complex.
Good to see some progress there and this demonstrates how far it sometimes can be from PoC to actual product!
@kravietz the only time i had ever even heard the expression used was when Dr. Günter Janek was presenting his research in the movie "Sneakers" 😂
That's... about the time when it started to be a popular topic! Which gives you an idea how complex it was.
Or is. I haven't really checked the IBM implementation, it might have some serious restrictions on use cases etc.
