The blog post discusses the importance of standardization and peer review in establishing trust in open-source libraries, particularly in the context of Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), a cutting-edge technology allowing computations on encrypted data without decryption. Since its proposal in 2009, FHE has undergone significant development and commercialization, necessitating public trust for widespread acceptance. Standardization, led by industry experts and organizations like homomorphicencryption.org, has been crucial, with recent contributions from the International Association for Standardization (ISO). Peer review and open-source publication are equally vital, ensuring security and transparency, exemplified by Duality's role in developing the PALISADE and OpenFHE libraries with collaboration from MIT, Intel, and Samsung. These efforts enable users to verify the implementation's correctness, fostering confidence in FHE's reliability, as demonstrated by its adoption by select Duality customers.