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quinndupont on Sept 18, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Craig Gentry named MacArthur Fellow for work on fu...

Homomorphic encapsulates some of this, no? Certainly functional crypto, c.f. http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-45239-0...

And there will certainly be many more advances, but if/when functional crypto gets totally sorted out it will change everything.

xnull2guest on Sept 18, 2014 [–]

Yes, it's more general. The schemes that just do functional encryption are more efficient because they don't need to do everything else FHE needs to.

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