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Duality runs sub-second genome-wide association studies on encrypted NIH data
“We're actually at a point now where we're actually encrypting genomic data for NIH and running full-on genome-wide association studies on encrypted genomic data with, ah, sub-second response times.”
Differential privacy fails on fine-grained analysis like genome-wide association studies
“The challenge with that, it actually doesn't work very well if you need really fine-grained analysis as you would, for example genome-wide association studies.”
Homomorphic encryption is on the cusp of solving major privacy issues
“And the core technology that we have is something that's called homomorph encryption and it's been growing in, in many different spaces and a diff, couple different areas, but it's enabling and on the cusp of addressing all these very, kind of, serious issues …”
Lattice cryptography adoption is hindered by its unique compute model
“One of the reasons that so many, so few people have been able to actually use this technology so far is that it's a very, very different compute model.”
Duality Technologies is fundamentally a data science company, not just security
“Though ostensibly duality technologies is really about security and cryptography, we're actually very much heart and soul at, a data science company, and how we can enable analytics on data that is protected and sensitive.”
Duality's encrypted computing tech originated from academic, DARPA, and DoD research
“So our solution is that we have a set of techniques that's, ah, been coming out of academia, out of DARPA, the DoD, where I personally came out of, and, ah, to enable computing on data while it's encrypted.”
Duality's co-founders include two MIT professors and a Turing Award winner
“And, ah, our, actually our co-founders include two MIT professors, including a Turing award winner.”
Traditional approaches to data security treat privacy and utility as zero-sum
“Generally there's been kind of like this all or nothing kind of approach, a zero sum game of providing a lot of privacy or providing a lot of utility from data, driving a lot of value.”
In 2009, an encrypted bitwise AND operation took half an hour
“Whereas in, in the old days, it would take, for example, you know, when the homework for crypto was first discovered, it basically took a half hour to run a bitwise AND on encrypted data.”
Lattice cryptography is a leading candidate for NIST's post-quantum standard
“It's one of the leading candidates for the NIST's, ah, ah, public key standard coming forward for the post-quantum, post-quantum crypto.”
Duality open-sources its core homomorphic encryption and key generation operations
“We make all our, ah, crypto technology, the core crypto operations of key generation, encryption, decryption, everything else, open source.”
The best software engineers are lazy, designing modular and reusable systems
“The best software engineers are as lazy as possible, meaning they make things as modular as possible, and reusable as possible”
Duality enables encrypted anti-money laundering with the UK Metropolitan Police
“You know, another use case that we've actually had is that we're actually enabling anti-money laundering and fraud detection over encrypted data particularly as enabled by Duality Technologies running in collaboration with the CDA, a consortium of British bank…”
The US Census Bureau is piloting internal data privacy technologies
“I have personally talked with the, ah, head of data innovation of the Census Bureau, and I know they, they're actually running a pilot study with, ah, a different set of technologies with internal development right now.”