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Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows direct computations on encrypted data. Despite numerous research efforts, the practicality of HE schemes remains to be demonstrated. In this regard, the enormous size of ciphertexts involved in HE…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Dayane Reis , Jonathan Takeshita , Taeho Jung , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

Polynomial multiplication is one of the fundamental operations in many applications, such as fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). However, the computational inefficiency stemming from polynomials with many large-bit coefficients poses a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Xiangchen Meng , Zijun Jiang , Yangdi Lyu

Outsourced databases powered by fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) offer the promise of secure data processing on untrusted cloud servers. A crucial aspect of database functionality, and one that has remained challenging to integrate…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dongfang Zhao

Inspired by the concept of fault tolerance quantum computation, this article proposes a framework dubbed Exact Homomorphic Encryption, EHE, enabling exact computations on encrypted data without the need for pre-decryption. The introduction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Zheng-Yao Su , Ming-Chung Tsai

Secure computation is of critical importance to not only the DoD, but across financial institutions, healthcare, and anywhere personally identifiable information (PII) is accessed. Traditional security techniques require data to be…

In this work, we propose an open-source, first-of-its-kind, arithmetic hardware library with a focus on accelerating the arithmetic operations involved in Ring Learning with Error (RLWE)-based somewhat homomorphic encryption (SHE). We…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Rashmi Agrawal , Lake Bu , Alan Ehret , Michel A. Kinsy

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables computation on encrypted data without decryption, making it central to privacy-preserving applications. However, no existing scheme efficiently supports both arithmetic and comparison operations in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Erwin Eko Wahyudi , Yan Solihin , Qian Lou

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a powerful encryption technique that allows for computation to be performed on ciphertext without the need for decryption. FHE will thus enable privacy-preserving computation and a wide range of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Qian Lou , Muhammad Santriaji , Ardhi Wiratama Baskara Yudha , Jiaqi Xue , Yan Solihin

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) promises the ability to compute over encrypted data without revealing sensitive contents. However, enabling high-frequency updates and statistical analysis in outsourced databases remains elusive due to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Dongfang Zhao

Hybrid Homomorphic Encryption (HHE) combines symmetric key and homomorphic encryption to reduce ciphertext expansion crucial in client-server deployments of HE. Special symmetric ciphers, amenable to efficient HE evaluation, have been…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Yeonsoo Jeon , Mattan Erez , Michael Orshansky

Recent advances in high-resolution CT-imaging technology are creating a new class of ultra-high resolved micro-structural datasets that challenge the limits of traditional homogenization approaches. While state-of-the-art FFT-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-10 Sascha H. Hauck , Matthias Kabel , Nicolas R. Gauger

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is rapidly emerging as a promising foundation for privacy-preserving cloud services, enabling computation directly on encrypted data. As FHE implementations mature and begin moving toward practical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Jianan Mu , Ge Yu , Zhaoxuan Kan , Song Bian , Liang Kong , Zizhen Liu , Cheng Liu , Jing Ye , Huawei Li

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables the evaluation of programs directly on encrypted data. However, because only basic operations can be performed on ciphertexts, programs must be expressed as boolean or arithmetic circuits. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Anne Müller , Mohd Kashif , Nico Döttling

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computations on encrypted data, preserving confidentiality without the need for decryption. However, FHE is often hindered by significant performance overhead, particularly for high-precision and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Chao Wang , Shubing Yang , Xiaoyan Sun , Jun Dai , Dongfang Zhao

Performing smart computations in a context of cloud computing and big data is highly appreciated today. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a smart category of encryption schemes that allows working with the data in its encrypted form. It…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Ahmed El-Yahyaoui , Mohamed Dafir Ech-Chrif El Kettani

Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables secure computation on encrypted data, mitigating privacy concerns in cloud and edge environments. However, due to its high compute and memory demands, extensive acceleration research has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Wonseok Choi , Hyunah Yu , Jongmin Kim , Hyesung Ji , Jaiyoung Park , Jung Ho Ahn

Cryptographic schemes like Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs), while offering powerful privacy-preserving capabilities, are often hindered by their computational complexity. Polynomial multiplication, a core…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Rabimba Karanjai , Sangwon Shin , and Wujie Xiong , Xinxin Fan , Lin Chen , Tianwei Zhang , Taeweon Suh , Weidong Shi , Veronika Kuchta , Francesco Sica , Lei Xu

RLWE-based Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) schemes add some small \emph{noise} to the message during encryption. The noise accumulates with each homomorphic operation. When the noise exceeds a critical value, the FHE circuit produces an…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Tarakaram Gollamudi , Anitha Gollamudi , Joshua Gancher

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has made it possible to perform addition and multiplication operations on encrypted data. Using FHE in control thus has the advantage that control effort for a plant can be calculated remotely without ever…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-29 Pieter Stobbe , Twan Keijzer , Riccardo M. G. Ferrari

The Number Theoretic Transform (NTT) is a fundamental operation in privacy-preserving technologies, particularly within fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). The efficiency of NTT computation directly impacts the overall performance of FHE,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-18 George Alexakis , Dimitrios Schoinianakis , Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos