Comment by chikere232

4 days ago

The devil is in the proprietary details though.

Sorry, what do you mean by “proprietary details”?

  • They are alluding to the fact that the implementation is closed source, and therefore "untrustworthy". It's a trite point, of course, but not without some merit.

    • I don’t see any merit, honestly. That would assume one is able to audit every bit of code they run, including updates, and control the build system.

      I mean, the Wally paper contains enough information to effectively implement homomorphic encryption for similar purposes. The field was almost entirely academic ~12 years ago…

      I miss talking shop on HN. Comments like that are why we can’t have nice things.

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