Blind Poker in a Pandemic

Why Secure Multi-Party Computation (SMPC) is critical to saving privacy, the economy, and the world

Andy Manoske
6 min readApr 26, 2020

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As COVID-19 wracks the world, most countries have enacted some form of non-essential business shutdown and/or social distancing protocols to stop the spread of this lethal virus. These measures have had a dramatic impact on the global economy, ensuring…

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Andy Manoske

Principal PM for Cryptography and Security Products @HashiCorp. Formerly Defense/NatSec & Crypto @NetApp, VC @GGVCapital + @AmplifyPartners