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Homomorphic is literally hundreds of thousands of times slower than operations on plaintext. A comparison of 2 64-bit integers can take around > 50ms. So even with a b-tree where maybe ~100 comparisons could occur, the query will take 5s. A linear scan over 1m records would take 13 hours!

SSE, ORE, STE schemes are all far more practical.



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