<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homomorphic_encryption" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Homomorphic_encryption</a><p>My understanding is that it is possible, and Turing-complete systems can be built, but they are slow and unwieldy, requiring a large amount of cyphertext to encode data (on the order of 4KB per float, I seem to recall).<p>It&#x27;s still up for debate whether or not such techniques will eventually be up for general distributed computing, e.g. distributing a VM instance over multiple distributed servers; or just for specific use-cases, e.g. bitcoin-esque distribution of small transactions, etc.