Vikram Saraph
Vikram Saraph is a mathematician and academic, reinventing himself as a software engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab. Previously, he worked on ads models at Facebook, but he didn’t enjoy it as much as he’d hoped. He has always been interested in all things low level and is just getting started dipping his toes into the hacker subculture.
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Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is an emerging, privacy-enhancing technology that enables computation on encrypted data without the need to decrypt it. FHE-enabled products and services have the potential for securing user data from mass collection by tech giants and law enforcement. FHE uses arithmetic operations (addition and multiplication) as blocks for building arithmetic circuits. Using these, a third party can perform complex tasks on encrypted client data, for example, running diagnostic algorithms on medical imagery, without client data ever being revealed to the party providing this service. This talk will cover the history of homomorphic encryption, where the state-of-the-art is today, what the remaining gaps are, and why we should all advocate for advances in fundamental FHE research.