Privacy enhancing technologies and confidential computing are two of my favorite topics to talk about! So much so that I am writing this blog post on a sunny Saturday afternoon. But wait, what’s that I hear you murmuring? “What is confidential computing? And how does it affect me?” Those are two very good questions.
Before we get into the details, let’s imagine you are the chief information security officer of Palabs, a leading genomics company which specialises in sequencing the DNA of curious citizens who are willing to spit into small containers and ship them across oceans for analysis. In exchange, your company provides them a data-driven and science-backed report of probabilities detailing where their ancestors might have come from (sorry grandma, you’re not from Italy! You might wanna go easy on all that pasta now).
Palabs takes pride in making us see how connected we all are, data-science style, one spit at a…