BitDevs Athens: Homomorphic encryption, food & drinks

BitDevs Athens is a community for those interested in discussing and participating in the research and development of Bitcoin and Bitcoin-related protocols. You can be well versed with or new to the topics, all are welcome. Be advised: discussion will be ***technical***.

We are following a Socratic Seminar format that originated in BitDevs NYC: presenters introduce topics for up to 10 mins and a discussion among participants follows. It is highly recommended that participants have been through the reading material in advance. We also go through the month's Bitcoin technical news.

This day's topic will be:

1) Homomorhpic encryption is a useful cryptographic building block; one use case is to query a database without telling the server (such as a blockchain explorer) what you searched for.
Reading material:

• Private information retrieval using homomorphic encryption, explained from scratch: https://blintzbase.com/posts/pir-and-fhe-from-scratch/
• A short illustration of homomorphic encryption by Google: https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/private_join_and_compute.pdf or a 3-min video of the same content: https://youtu.be/mPMLY6UzvsI
• Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Introduction and Use-Cases: https://cryptographycaffe.sandboxaq.com/posts/fhe-01/
• Explaining the Recent Rise of Fully Homomorphic Encryption in the Blockchain Industry: https://medium.com/@mustafa.hourani/explaining-the-recent-rise-of-fully-homomorphic-encryption-in-the-blockchain-industry-c7081fa05458

2) Review of technical Bitcoin news. In every meetup we go through technical Bitcoin news.

How should I prepare? Read the material.
Do you hold meetups for a wider audience? Yes, please subscribe to https://www.meetup.com/blockchaingreece-0/ and review past meetups.

The event will be held in English and is free. We start at 7pm and at 9 pm we will head to dinner & drinks, all are welcome! We thank Programize for hosting us!