I found this interesting and approachable, thanks. To be honest, I'm not trying to come up with anything ridiculous, mostly just wondering if FHE could add any value to use cases where PAKEs and E2EE are involved; that is, could it enable more capabilities or better usability with E2EE client-server systems. So far it feels as though the answer is "not really." That having been said, it's obviously still useful and undoubtedly a technique like PIR could be used in tandem with other techniques that are designed to preserve user privacy even if they don't directly compliment eachother. The use case of not being able to discover who the user is talking to in a chat definitely seems like an excellent idea, and I'd like to explore that some time.
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I found this interesting and approachable, thanks. To be honest, I'm not trying to come up with anything ridiculous, mostly just wondering if FHE could add any value to use cases where PAKEs and E2EE are involved; that is, could it enable more capabilities or better usability with E2EE client-server systems. So far it feels as though the answer is "not really." That having been said, it's obviously still useful and undoubtedly a technique like PIR could be used in tandem with other techniques that are designed to preserve user privacy even if they don't directly compliment eachother. The use case of not being able to discover who the user is talking to in a chat definitely seems like an excellent idea, and I'd like to explore that some time.