Name: BitDevs Athens: Homomorphic encryption, food & drinks
Start: 2024-02-20T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-02-20T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Programize Hellas

[BitDevs Athens](https://bitdevs-athens.com) 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](https://bitdevs.org/about): 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/](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](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](https://youtu.be/mPMLY6UzvsI)
* Fully Homomorphic Encryption: Introduction and Use-Cases: [https://cryptographycaffe.sandboxaq.com/posts/fhe-01/](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](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/](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!

Andreas

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