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PaperCryptographyJune 10, 2026

The quiet trick that lets a cloud server run a program it cannot read

If you have ever sent a sensitive document to a cloud service, you know the small chill of handing over your data. Fully homomorphic encryption is the idea that says you should not have to. A server with a fully homomorphic scheme can run any program on your encrypted data. It sh…

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PaperBlockchainOctober 1, 2014

The state machine that promised to replace every other one

Satoshi Nakamoto solved two problems in one paper. The first was obvious to anyone who read the financial press: a peer-to-peer digital cash system that no government could shut down. The second was quieter, stranger, and arguably more durable. He had built a working model of dec…

InfoCryptographyOctober 10, 2013

The Nine-Page Paper That Quietly Replaced the Counterparty

On October 31, 2008, a person or small group working under the name Satoshi Nakamoto emailed a nine-page PDF to a small mailing list of cryptography enthusiasts. The document was called "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System." It was not peer reviewed. It was not affilia…