{
  "id": 3971724,
  "title": "flash-zk: a server-blind encrypted database for private AI",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/28/flash-zk-a-server-blind-encrypted-database-for-private-ai",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-28T13:50:13.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/moaaz_yahia_4e3bb39e5be03/-flash-zk-a-server-blind-encrypted-database-for-private-ai-28ba"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Most AI databases can read you. This one is designed not to. Sealed envelopes. Blind indexes. The key never lives on the server. RAG and agent memory sit on that — not on a vendor that holds plaintext at query time. We did not ship new crypto in 1.3.1. We shipped the rule, in the open: Default is strong. You can weaken it. It holds if you keep the key. What gets refused next is already written.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}