Henri Stern: Privy, building for data privacy and security

<p>Here is my conversation with <a href="https://twitter.com/henri_stern">Henri Stern</a> who is building <a href="https://www.privy.io/">Privy</a>.<br>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>Timestamps:</p><ul> <li> <strong>2:30</strong> - designing the product/protocol roadmap</li> <li> <strong>10:30</strong> - privacy/security vs. convenience</li> <li> <strong>19:27</strong> - building an web3 application</li> <li> <strong>23:20</strong> - decentralizing Privy</li> <li> <strong>32:09</strong> - key management architecture</li> <li> <strong>46:11</strong> - verifiability, transparency as a disinfectant</li> <li> <strong>59:02</strong> - building a product with private data</li> <li> <strong>1:07:08</strong> - cofounder relationship</li> </ul>