What makes you say homomorphic encryption doesn't have a chance of working? I grant you that it will be at least 15 years before a commercially viable homomorphic encryption product is released, but to say it has no chance of working is silly.
My research advisor likes to tell a story of his friend going to see Rivest give some of the first lectures on RSA circa 1977. All the systems people in the room laughed at the naivete of this young cryptographer and his hope that such an absurdly slow encryption method would gain widespread adoption.
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What makes you say homomorphic encryption doesn't have a chance of working? I grant you that it will be at least 15 years before a commercially viable homomorphic encryption product is released, but to say it has no chance of working is silly. My research advisor likes to tell a story of his friend going to see Rivest give some of the first lectures on RSA circa 1977. All the systems people in the room laughed at the naivete of this young cryptographer and his hope that such an absurdly slow encryption method would gain widespread adoption.
I suspect Crypton is for people writing apps now, not 15 years from now. Who knows what moral panic we'll be getting worked up about in 2025?