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| Show HN: Read Wikipedia privately using homomorphic encryption (spiralwiki.com) | ||
| recommended by 3 users | 2022 | 331 points by blintz | cryptography | original thread | | ||
| 3 users recommended this thread. What they said: |
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Anunayj Aug 23, 2022 | on: Should notes be end-to-end encrypted? | context
There was a pretty neat recent post on a pratical Homomorphic Encryption project [1]. Maybe not practical, but pretty cool nevertheless. |
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thrance Jun 18, 2025 | on: Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs | context
Another cool use of FHE, allowing to browse wikipedia privately while still online: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31668814 |
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| recommended by 325 users | 2007 | BrandonM on: My YC app: Dropbox - Throw away your USB drive | aged poorly | original thread | | ||
> The server must know what it's matching at some point, to be able to generate a response
The entire point of homomorphic encryption is that it doesn't.
The homomorphic encrypted Wikipedia lookup example is pretty neat.
https://spiralwiki.com/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31668814