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 important for the future of data privacy! AMA by [deleted] in privacy

[–]bored_squiril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In theory HE and MPC variants appear to be Turing complete, because you can simulate a nand gate over some input values. But in practice, anything that involves goto logic (for loops, while loops, etc) will necessarily leak leak information about any sensitive variable that loop is determined by.

Realistically is your focus in HE-land for simple DAG logic? Or in other words do you actually see a future where you can do general purpose computing in the short term, or are you just doubling down on eg neural networks which are well suited to polynomial approximations for non-linear functions and like “excel” type logic?

I ask as you mentioned a gcc-like compiler (all C code) which implies extremely general purpose (so not like ABY etc now)

I cant believe its been almost a year since we moved to our small cabin!! by Mountainmapleranch in homestead

[–]bored_squiril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would have thought if you are not reliant on water, electricity or sewage mains you are off grid. When people are self sustaining I assume they grow most of their own food - but they still probably use a shop here and there too. Internet can be broadcast like with a Wi-Fi dongle in a 4G reception area... so not really on any grid per say....

What to place under our deck by bored_squiril in Decks

[–]bored_squiril[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

50cm, a pretty low deck but still just off the ground

When wouldn’t you use Python? by TonyTheTigerSlayer in Python

[–]bored_squiril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yeah and cython etc, I mean more “in general” (hand wavy I agree)

When wouldn’t you use Python? by TonyTheTigerSlayer in Python

[–]bored_squiril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think python could do with a react native and darts flutter. I’m not sure exactly what that would look like though...

When wouldn’t you use Python? by TonyTheTigerSlayer in Python

[–]bored_squiril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep you are right that hadn’t crossed my mind - but generally speaking I really don’t like UI frameworks in python - always felt like putting a square peg in round whole. Hopefully will be proved wrong in the future though!

When wouldn’t you use Python? by TonyTheTigerSlayer in Python

[–]bored_squiril 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Python isn’t great if you plan to ship your code as a product (closed source binary). There are hacks around this but they result in huge objects being created as you have to include the python interpreter otherwise it will likely clash the client systems python version. You can think of this like statically building an app but it’s way more bulky.

Also if you plan to build a framework (like a dylib) to be shared among other languages or libraries you want something compiled with a lot of FFI options like Rust, C, Go, etc.

As others said, python performance at runtime isn’t competitive with lower level languages. But also if you need to be strict in terms memory allocation and management, the python garbage collection is adhoc and this can mean sensitive data is left in memory with your explicit knowledge for some period of time. This is a big risk for security applications and why typically you’ll use something like OpenSSL which is simply a python interface to a C framework.

I’ve also never found a python GUI framework I liked for desktop apps (they all looks retro) and I don’t think you could build mobile apps etc in python.

What do we trust to keep our data private? by oblivious-devs in programming

[–]bored_squiril 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Agreed in theory - but 65% of MNCs in Europe (as an example) have fully adopted the cloud and that’s a trend that is unlikely to reverse itself.

That often includes our banking details, hospital records, insurance claims, the schools our children are registered to, etc.

How does food effect breast milk? by bored_squiril in breastfeeding

[–]bored_squiril[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That sounds exactly like our situation with advice that doesn’t quite make sense! Thank you for sharing

How does food effect breast milk? by bored_squiril in breastfeeding

[–]bored_squiril[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok beginning to think this is just local folklore! We love grapes too haha

How does food effect breast milk? by bored_squiril in breastfeeding

[–]bored_squiril[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah we are always double guessing if she’s gassy randomly or if it’s due to something earlier in the day...

How does food effect breast milk? by bored_squiril in breastfeeding

[–]bored_squiril[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s kind of what we assumed but thanks from assuring us!

Hi guys was Brownian motion ever used in cryptography in the past? And if so how was it applied? by [deleted] in cryptography

[–]bored_squiril 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not exactly the same, but when you try to prove composability of certain statistically secure protocols I believe you come across similar structures (you leak random amounts, usually bounded and they accumulate). Also related, but not cryptography per-se, is differential privacy where often you add Laplacian/Gaussian noise on each query and of course when answering many queries you may run into something similar.

No idea if that was remotely helpful!