cto & general partner @paradigm. ceo /ithaca. working with /rust on /ethereum. building /reth and /foundry. https://gakonst.com

kicking uss off, Elaine Shi talking about ORAM -- "Oblivious RAM"

TLDR even if you have confidential compute, querying the DB can leak sensitive information via your access patterns

so you run the oram algo inside of your enclave, and you get both encrypted compute and unable to correlate which gives you both confidential compute and db queries

but this has been hard to make practical due to large constants

an easy way to think about ORAM is that it "encrypts" the access patterns,

for every query, it generates multiple accesses, and you're unable to distinguish which one is the right one - almost like a noising process