Raluca Ada Popa

Raluca Ada Popa is the president and a co-founder of Opaque Systems, an associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley, and the co-founder of PreVeil. She holds a PhD in computer science from MIT and is interested in security, systems, and applied cryptography. Raluca developed practical systems that protect data confidentiality by computing over encrypted data, as well as designed new encryption schemes that underlie these systems.

Charting the Way to Realizing the Potential of Confidential AI

News / By / June 30, 2022

This week, we and our co-founders Ion Stoica, Wenting Zheng, and Chester Leung are thrilled to announce that we closed our Series A funding bringing our total funding to $31.6 million. We are also excited to announce that Ion Stoica, Founder & Chairman of Databricks and co-founder of Opaque, will be formally joining our board …

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Secure computation: Homomorphic encryption or hardware enclaves

Secure Computation: Homomorphic Encryption or Hardware Enclaves?

Knowledge Base / By / October 19, 2022

Secure computation has become increasingly popular for protecting the privacy and integrity of data during computation. The reason is that it provides two tremendous advantages. The first advantage is that it offers “encryption in use” in addition to the already existing “encryption at rest” and “encryption in transit”. The “encryption in use” paradigm is important …

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