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"The entire business model built on harvesting user data could become obsolete" with Fully Homomorphic Encryption (boingboing.net)

submitted 1 day ago by ooli3@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 1 points 19 hours ago

Presumably the data is still encrypted with a user-specific key.