Last time, we went through the overview of what FHE is, the different stages towards FHE, and the brief history of it. I think at this point, we should be pretty comfortable with understanding what FHE is and its potential applications. Fully Homomorphic Encryption Part One: A Gentle Intro This post is mirrored on my personal blog: Function Decomposition.medium.com Although these topics might sound pretty archaic and distant…

This post is mirrored on my personal blog: Function Decomposition. Preface Recently I have taken CS355 (Topics in Cryptography) at Stanford. This was a comprehensive course on advanced crypto topics. Throughout the 3-month course, the instructors covered various topics that span the history of Cryptography, starting from One-way Functions, PRFs all…

For the past year, I having been taking classes at Stanford under Professor Dan Boneh and learning about different topics in the field of Cryptography. It has truly become an amazing journey. There are so many marvelous ideas in this field and a lot of them essentially reshaped the world. …

Cloud Computing at its finest. What is Serverless I came across the term, Serverless Computing, a while ago when I was browsing Medium. The word didn’t make sense to me at that time because modern internet wouldn’t even exist without servers. Recently, this word entered my mind again when I was reading about…

Preface I live in one of those large apartment complexes in San Francisco. The complex was recently built, and I am the first tenant in my current apartment. Walking down the hallway inside the complex, I always get this feeling of a modern, newly-furnished hotel. Incident There was just one small thing…

An accidental discovery took me to the frontier of research on computing. During Christmas Break Due to the holiday code freeze, I took a week off for Christmas. Having nowhere to visit, I decided to stay at home peacefully this year. One day after Christmas Eve, I was bored and then I started…

How do we learn from TensorFlow and dream about the future of silicon valley? Last week while I was browsing Medium, I saw an interesting ML article that talked about AutoGraph, a tool for converting normal Python code into Graph code that TensorFlow uses for execution. AutoGraph converts Python into TensorFlow graphs By Alex Wiltschko, Dan Moldovan, Wolff Dobsonmedium.com From my understanding, TensorFlow…

Let’s rethink about VPNs again… As discussed previously, if we strip away all the monetary and technical details of the existing VPN services, down on the bottom the problem everyone tries to solve is simply figuring out a way to route network traffic in-and-out through the firewall. This seems like a problem that we can…

A friend from college asked me about how to access Instagram from China. I felt I have come across a giant hidden industry, after some research. Last week my college roommate sent me a message on WeChat, asking me if I knew any reliable VPN service providers so that he…