Kurt Rohloff, Co-Founder, Duality Technologies - How To Make Homomorphic Encryption Widespread - E12

Episode • Jan 26, 2021 • 44m

In this episode of the Encrypted Economy, we talk with Kurt Rohloff , Co-founder and CTO of Duality Technologies and one of the pioneers in the homomorphic encryption space. Kurt spent nine years as a senior scientist at Raytheon, where he worked with the military's R&D arm DARPA, which we learned a lot about in this episode. He has a real passion for cryptography, and he loves the people that he works with in the space. This passion and personability has contributed to Kurt leading the effort to standardize homomorphic encryption as a founding member of the cross-organization standardization group. He wants to solve problems and make the world a better place.

So in this episode, we dive into the events that made homomorphic encryption click for him, his current work in the space, and mission to take the technology from innovative to widespread and boring. Don’t miss this great episode of the Encrypted Economy as we expand our journey into the business applications of privacy enhancing technologies, and of course keep an eye on Kurt’s work with Duality and the Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Group.

Topics Covered

Kurt’s Background & DARPA Connections
What Drove Kurt into Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET)
What is Lattice-Based Cryptography?
How to Choose a Cryptography Scheme
Explaining Duality to a Venture Capitalist
The Challenges of Applying PET to Legacy Systems
The PALISADE Encryption Library
Founding The Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Group
Open-Source Encryption & SecurePlus Statistics
SolarWinds and the Public-Private Security Partnership
Duality’s Most Exciting Use Case

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