This article is kind of hilarious to read.
This is my life since getting a dog (and I've been doing versions of it before my dog too) but this guy just discovered the way Europeans have been living for hundreds of years and wrote a whole article about it.
I guess this is also one of the great things about the internet. Another person's mundane thing is another person's discovery.
> Unexplainable security features are just marketing materials.
I feel this way about a lot of hardware-based security solutions like TPMs, and TEEs. These are actually useful solutions that can help solve problems that we have (as evidenced by this article) but unfortunately, these solutions tend to be poorly publicly documented. As a result, we rely on academics to do the work for us in order to learn how to better contextualize these solutions.
One thing that many of these kinds of articles don't really talk about but that also emphasizes their point is that there will be an increase in interfaces/languages for software developers to do increasingly specialized for work. As such, there will be more compilers, vms, dsls, etc which means that there will be more of a demand for developers who have this skillset. Ideally, this should lead to more folks becoming developers or at least acquiring skills that professional developers have in order to make effective use of these tools.
My counterargument for that is that LLMs need to communicate not only between themselves and humans but LLM to LLM communication. We will get more niche and domain specific languages designed for LLMs as a result.
Working on an MPC stack to make it easier for devs to integrate privacy into their stacks.
As normal folks increasingly value the privacy of their data, developers will need to think about how they can build apps while guarding their users' data. We provide tooling for them to do this.
Still WIP but we are getting our first audit in the coming days!
I hadn't done a ton of research on them but I skimmed their paper.
That's a really cool find. I'm curious to see how it compares to TikTok's suite of 2PC protocols for advertising measurement and Google's use of TEEs for ad auctions.
I didn't know that. I encountered these emails recently from the Tech Emails X account and figured I'd share here because 1) it's very timely considering the NYC mayor elections and 2) HN is a great place to read about people's thoughts on topics like these outside of where I usually hangout.
There are certainly nation states that are looking for ways to 1) prevent their satellites colliding with one another (https://eprint.iacr.org/2013/850.pdf) and 2) being able to do forms of computation that might be risky to do on earth for national security reasons.
Hi, sorry for missing this. I'm usually a lurker on HN.
Right now, it's just a general purpose VM that does the basics of what anyone would expect any VM to do. We are currently in the midst of implementing the MPC specific aspects to the VM, namely distributed computation and allowing anyone to plug in any MPC protocol they want as long as it conforms to our set of interfaces. We will be providing MPC protocols that we think are worthwhile for use cases that we know have users and as such, if you aren't a cryptographer but have a sense of where you want to use MPC, you can just use our VM and associated APIs without having to fiddle too much with the actual cryptography.
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