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Let’s talk about AI and end-to-end encryption
(blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
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The author only mentions homomorphic encryption in a footnote:
And yet Apple claims to be using homomorphic encryption to provide their "private server" AI compute:
Combining Machine Learning and Homomorphic Encryption in the Apple Ecosystem
Presumably the author doubts Apple's implementation but for some reason has written a whole blog post about AI and encryption and hasn't mentioned why Apple's homomorphic encryption system doesn't work.
I'd be quite interested to know what exactly is the weakness in their implementation. I imagine Apple and everyone who uses their services would be interested to know too. So why not mention it at all?
Might be the difference between FHE and regular HE. I don't know a lot about this subject, but if HE was more practical, I'd expect to see it a lot more, outside of ML too.