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Comment by acqq

12 years ago

Impractical is in sense "nobody can actually it, only the papers are written about it." Practically impossible to use.

A lot of things that were practically impossible 50 (or even 5) years ago are commonplace today.

  • That doesn't change the fact that nobody today can use homomorphic encryption, contrary to your claim.

    • I did not mean to make any such claim (hence the phrase, "in theory"). I was responding to the statement that "large cloud systems are fundamentally incapable of protecting data" by pointing out that, in theory, they are.