Comment by paulgerhardt

6 months ago

That actually sounds pretty reasonable and feels almost standard at this point?

To pick one out of a dozen possible examples: I regularly read 500 word news articles from 8mb web pages with autoplaying videos, analytics beacons, and JS sludge.

That’s about 3 orders of magnitude for data and 4-5 orders of magnitude for compute.

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reliabilityguy  6 months ago

Sure, but downloading a lot of data is not the same as compute on this data. With web you simply download the data, and pass the pointers to this data around. With FHE, you have to compute on extremely large cipher texts, using every byte of them. FHE is roughly 1000x more data to process and it takes about 1000x more time.