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0points on Dec 28, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Photos phones home on iOS 18 and macOS 15

> It's the equivalent of sending an MD5 of your password somewhere

a) MD5 is reversible, it just cost GPU time to brute force

b) It is unproven that their implementation is irreversible

fragmede on Dec 29, 2024 [–]

BFV has been proven to be irreversible, and Apple open sourced their Swift library implementing it, so it's not totally unproven.

https://github.com/apple/swift-homomorphic-encryption

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