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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Anton Shilov

Intel's Heracles chip computes fully-encrypted data without decrypting it — chip is 1,074 to 5,547 times faster than a 24-core Intel Xeon in FHE math operations

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Modern encryption technologies enable modern systems to protect data while it is stored on a storage device, transferred over various links inside the system, or even hosted in DRAM waiting for its turn to be processed. But once it reaches the CPU, GPU, or other type of processor, it gets decrypted and shows itself essentially as plain text, making it vulnerable to various classes of attacks.

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