My Mission to Make Homomorphic Encryption Boring - Kurt Rohloff of Duality Technologies

In this episode of the Encrypted Economy, we talk with Kurt Rohloff , Co-Founder and CTO of Duality and one of the pioneers in the homomorphic encryption space. Kurt spent nine years as a senior scientist at Raytheon, where he worked with the military's R&D arm DARPA, which we learned a lot about in this episode. Kurt has a real passion for cryptography and loves the community. This passion and personability has contributed to Kurt leading the effort to standardize homomorphic encryption as a founding member of the community’s standardization group. He wants to solve problems and make the world a better place.

So in this episode, we dive into the events that made homomorphic encryption click for him, his current work in the space, and mission to take the technology from innovative to widespread and boring. Don’t miss this great episode of the Encrypted Economy as we expand our journey into the business applications of privacy enhancing technologies, and of course keep an eye on Kurt’s work with Duality and the homomorphic encryption standardization group.

Topics Covered

Kurt’s Background & DARPA Connections

What Drove Kurt into Privacy Enhancing Technology (PET)

What is Lattice Based Cryptography?

How to Choose a Cryptography Scheme

Explaining Duality to a Venture Capitalist

The Challenges of Applying PET to Legacy Systems

The PALISADE Encryption Library

Founding The Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Group

Open-Source Encryption & SecurePlus Statistics

SolarWinds and the Public-Private Security Partnership

Duality’s Most Exciting Use Case

Kurt’s 10 Year Vision