Ethereum

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As I come to grips with the limitations of SNARKs for mechanisms that have a mix of private and public data, I have a question: what do you think about FHE? Do you think the advances of the last 2 years will lead to a Moore’s law in practical code, like we saw post Groth16 or not?

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FHE still has practical limits that preclude it from being a "magic black box", namely you have to gatekeep the final decryption step somehow, and it ends up in practice often having similar constraints to MPC. So I definitely look forward to it (as well as side quests like much better PIR) but it's not a panacea

And of course better FHE almost certainly translates into better witness encryption and/or obfuscation if we can ever make that viable in practice.