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Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) allows computing on encrypted data, enabling secure offloading of computation to untrusted serves. Though it provides ideal security, FHE is expensive when executed in software, 4 to 5 orders of magnitude…

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is an emerging encryption scheme that allows computations to be performed directly on encrypted messages. This property provides promising applications such as privacy-preserving deep learning and cloud…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-01 Yujia Zhai , Mohannad Ibrahim , Yiqin Qiu , Fabian Boemer , Zizhong Chen , Alexey Titov , Alexander Lyashevsky

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

The dramatic increase of data breaches in modern computing platforms has emphasized that access control is not sufficient to protect sensitive user data. Recent advances in cryptography allow end-to-end processing of encrypted data without…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Eduardo Chielle , Oleg Mazonka , Homer Gamil , Michail Maniatakos

In this paper, we present the first multi-modal FHE accelerator based on a unified architecture, which efficiently supports CKKS, TFHE, and their conversion scheme within a single accelerator. To achieve this goal, we first analyze the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xianglong Deng , Shengyu Fan , Zhicheng Hu , Zhuoyu Tian , Zihao Yang , Jiangrui Yu , Dingyuan Cao , Dan Meng , Rui Hou , Meng Li , Qian Lou , Mingzhe Zhang

Fully homomorphic encryption allows the evaluation of arbitrary functions on encrypted data. It can be leveraged to secure outsourced and multiparty computation. TFHE is a fast torus-based fully homomorphic encryption scheme that allows…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Valentin Reyes Häusler , Gabriel Ott , Aruna Jayasena , Andreas Peter

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP) are protocols which construct cryptographic proofs to demonstrate knowledge of a secret input in a computation without revealing any information about the secret. ZKPs enable novel applications in private and…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tarunesh Verma , Yichao Yuan , Nishil Talati , Todd Austin

Homomorphic encryption (HE) enables computation on encrypted data, and hence it has a great potential in privacy-preserving outsourcing of computations to the cloud. Hardware acceleration of HE is crucial as software implementations are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-13 Ahmet Can Mert , Aikata , Sunmin Kwon , Youngsam Shin , Donghoon Yoo , Yongwoo Lee , Sujoy Sinha Roy

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables the processing of encrypted data without decrypting it. FHE has garnered significant attention over the past decade as it supports secure outsourcing of data processing to remote cloud services.…

The deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs) in privacy-sensitive environments is constrained by computational overheads in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). This paper explores unstructured sparsity in FHE matrix multiplication schemes…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Aidan Ferguson , Perry Gibson , Lara D'Agata , Parker McLeod , Ferhat Yaman , Amitabh Das , Ian Colbert , José Cano

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a core building block in privacy-preserving machine learning (PPML), but HE is also widely known as its efficiency bottleneck. Therefore, many GPU-accelerated cryptographic schemes have been proposed to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yu Cui , Hang Fu , Licheng Wang , Haibin Zhang

The migration of computation to the cloud has raised concerns regarding the security and privacy of sensitive data, as their need to be decrypted before processing, renders them susceptible to potential breaches. Fully Homomorphic…

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are rapidly gaining importance in privacy-preserving and verifiable computing. ZKPs enable a proving party to prove the truth of a statement to a verifying party without revealing anything else. ZKPs have…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Alhad Daftardar , Jianqiao Mo , Joey Ah-kiow , Benedikt Bünz , Ramesh Karri , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen

While many hardware accelerators have recently been proposed to address the inefficiency problem of fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes, none of them is able to deliver optimal performance when facing real-world FHE workloads…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Junxue Zhang , Xiaodian Cheng , Gang Cao , Meng Dai , Yijun Sun , Han Tian , Dian Shen , Yong Wang , Kai Chen

Homomorphic Encryption (HE) enables secure computation on encrypted data, addressing privacy concerns in cloud computing. However, the high computational cost of HE operations, particularly matrix multiplication (MM), remains a major…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Zhihan Xu , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor K. Prasanna

Cryptographic algorithms such as AES-128 and SHA-256 are fundamental to ensuring data security and integrity. Although these algorithms are computationally efficient, their performance is often constrained by the processor-centric…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Nicola Barcarolo , Brahmaiah Gandham , Mohammad Sadrosadati , Roberto Passerone , Onur Mutlu , Flavio Vella

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) are critical for privacy-preserving techniques and verifiable computation. Many ZKP protocols rely on key kernels such as the SumCheck protocol and Merkle Tree commitments to enable their key security…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Jianqiao Mo , Alhad Daftardar , Joey Ah-Kiow , Kaiyue Guo , Benedikt Bünz , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen

Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKPs) have emerged as an important cryptographic technique allowing one party (prover) to prove the correctness of a statement to some other party (verifier) and nothing else. ZKPs give rise to user's privacy in many…

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…

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables computation directly on encrypted data but incurs massive computational and memory overheads, often exceeding plaintext execution by several orders of magnitude. While custom ASIC accelerators can…