I'm not an expert at all on cryptography so I can't comment on that, however when looking for info about thorn I found a ftm page where a uni researcher acknowledges it's not possible to do it yet. It should be either this https://www.ftm.eu/articles/ashton-kutchers-non-profit-start... or this one, I can't remember at the moment https://www.ftm.eu/articles/ashton-kutcher-s-anti-childabuse...

Edit "possible" as in very computationally expensive to do it on a mass scale

Not possible to do what? Homomorphic encryption?

The links you provided are paywalled.

Yep. Sorry for the pay wall

http://web.archive.org/web/20241210080253/https://www.ftm.eu...

Yeah, I think their design won’t work, of course. It doesn’t mean that the technology cannot be applied.