Henri Stern: Privy, building for data privacy and security

Into the Bytecode

Here is my conversation with Henri Stern who is building Privy.
Henri was previously a research scientist at Protocol Labs and worked on Filecoin’s consensus protocol. And after many years of thinking through problems related to data privacy and security, he recently co-founded a new company called Privy where they provide a suite of API tools to store and manage user data off chain.

In this conversation, we talked through a set of topics that Henri has a unique point of view on — starting with the question around the seeming trade-off between privacy/security on the one hand and UX/convenience on the other. We talked about principles he has in mind in designing an off-chain data system; how privy does encryption and key management; how they do permissioning; and how they think about data storage.

Timestamps:
(00:02:30) - designing the product/protocol roadmap
(00:10:30) - privacy/security vs. convenience
(00:19:27) - building an web3 application
(00:23:20) - decentralizing Privy
(00:32:09) - key management architecture
(00:46:11) - verifiability, transparency as a disinfectant
(00:59:02) - building a product with private data
(01:07:08) - cofounder relationship

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