[ExI] The second step towards immortality

Martin Sustrik sustrik at 250bpm.com
Sat Jan 4 04:28:38 UTC 2014


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On 03/01/14 16:09, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:

> ### On the contrary! This is fascinating - fully homeomorphic 
> encryption in a computer is like a haunting, an alien presence 
> inhabiting a house nominally under our control, perhaps expungeable
> by burning the house down but not corruptible to our purposes.

Nice metaphor.

To push it a bit further: The poltergeist can own electronic money and
pay you for not burning the house down. Actually, it motivates you to
double check that the house is not burnt down by accident or by ghost
busters while all the money is inside.

Martin

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