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drdexebtjltoday at 3:59 AM1 replyview on HN

> Why would I want the data to be decrypted at each point and why would datacenters do that?

I think they mean the data must have existed in plain text before it was encrypted, and will exist in plain text after it is decrypted.

At some point “your” server in a datacenter somewhere needs to decrypt the data to do something useful with it, after all you’re paying for compute, and homeomorphic encryption is too slow, so the work is done in unencrypted data.

There it is. Your data in plain text in RAM.

TLS will protect your data in transit, but it can’t protect you against a compromised recipient.


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gaadd33today at 6:48 AM

So the NSA streams the ram of every virtual machine and bare metal server on the internet to themselves so they can analyze the plain text that's being processed in ram and no one has noticed this network traffic? How could that even be possible? If I buy a 100Mbps network connection from someone, they just provision a bit more so that the NSA streaming doesn't impact or show up?