We’re Christian Mouchet, Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Kurt Rohloff, Nigel Smart, Pascal Paillier, Rand Hindi, Wonkyung Jung, various researchers and library developers of homomorphic encryption to answer questions about homomorphic encryption and why it’s

Hi r/privacy community, u/carrotcypher here to introduce this AMA. What is this all about?

Cryptography (the use of codes and ciphers to protect secrets) began thousands of years ago. Through its evolution to the eventual creation of a public encryption standard [DES](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Encryption_Standard) and the invention of [public-key cryptography](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography), encryption has suffered one drawback that has been the subject of much research in recent years: in order to read or process data, you have to first decrypt it (which isn’t always …

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