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Biometric authentication systems pose privacy risks, as leaked templates such as iris or fingerprints can lead to security breaches. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) enables secure encrypted evaluation, but its deployment is hindered by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Joon Soo Yoo , Tae Min Ahn , Ji Won Yoon

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic scheme that enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data, as if the data were in plaintext. After all computations are performed on the encrypted data, it can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Ronny Ko

It has been a long standing problem to securely outsource computation tasks to an untrusted party with integrity and confidentiality guarantees. While fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a promising technique that allows computations…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-21 Wenhao Wang , Yichen Jiang , Qintao Shen , Weihao Huang , Hao Chen , Shuang Wang , XiaoFeng Wang , Haixu Tang , Kai Chen , Kristin Lauter , Dongdai Lin

Face recognition models operate in a client-server setting where a client extracts a compact face embedding and a server performs similarity search over a template database. This raises privacy concerns, as facial data is highly sensitive.…

Many computer vision systems require users to upload image features to the cloud for processing and storage. These features can be exploited to recover sensitive information about the scene or subjects, e.g., by reconstructing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Mihai Dusmanu , Johannes L. Schönberger , Sudipta N. Sinha , Marc Pollefeys

Traditional approaches to vector similarity search over encrypted data rely on fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to enable computation without decryption. However, the substantial computational overhead of FHE makes it impractical for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Dongfang Zhao

Cloud computing is an important part of today's world because offloading computations is a method to reduce costs. In this paper, we investigate computing the Speeded Up Robust Features (SURF) using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-20 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

Privacy computing involves the extensive exchange and processing of encrypted data. For the parties involved in these interactions, how to determine the consistency of exchanged data without accessing the original data, ensuring tamper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Huang Neng

Centralised biometric identity systems expose users to single points of failure, opaque verification processes, and irreversible biometric compromise. Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs) and Verifiable Credentials (VCs) offer stronger privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Ankit Kanaiyalal Prajapati , Shahzad Memon , Mohammed Mahir Rahman , Ameer Al-Nemrat

With the deep integration of facial recognition into online banking, identity verification, and other networked services, achieving effective decoupling of identity information from visual representations during image storage and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Zhuosen Bao , Xia Du , Zheng Lin , Jizhe Zhou , Zihan Fang , Jiening Wu , Yuxin Zhang , Zhe Chen , Chi-man Pun , Wei Ni , Jun Luo

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a relatively recent advancement in the field of privacy-preserving technologies. FHE allows for the arbitrary depth computation of both addition and multiplication, and thus the application of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-29 George Onoufriou , Paul Mayfield , Georgios Leontidis

We present Blind-Match, a novel biometric identification system that leverages homomorphic encryption (HE) for efficient and privacy-preserving 1:N matching. Blind-Match introduces a HE-optimized cosine similarity computation method, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Hyunmin Choi , Jiwon Kim , Chiyoung Song , Simon S. Woo , Hyoungshick Kim

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

The lack of a common platform and benchmark datasets for evaluating face obfuscation methods has been a challenge, with every method being tested using arbitrary experiments, datasets, and metrics. While prior work has demonstrated that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Seyyed Mohammad Sadegh Moosavi Khorzooghi , Poojitha Thota , Mohit Singhal , Abolfazl Asudeh , Gautam Das , Shirin Nilizadeh

Cloud computing is a popular distributed network and utility model based technology. Since in cloud the data is outsourced to third parties, the protection of confidentiality and privacy of user data becomes important. Different methods for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-14 B. T. Prasanna , C. B. Akki

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

In this paper, a secure Convolutional Neural Network classifier is proposed using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). The secure classifier provides a user with the ability to out-source the computations to a powerful cloud server and/or…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Thomas Shortell , Ali Shokoufandeh

With the rapid development of cloud computing, the privacy security incidents occur frequently, especially data security issues. Cloud users would like to upload their sensitive information to cloud service providers in encrypted form…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Qi Wang , Dehua Zhou , Yanling Li

Iris-based biometric identification is increasingly recognized for its significant accuracy and long-term stability compared to other biometric modalities such as fingerprints or facial features. However, all biometric modalities are highly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Christina Karakosta , Lian Alhedaithy , William J. Knottenbelt

Privacy-preserving machine learning has become an important long-term pursuit in this era of artificial intelligence (AI). Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a uniquely promising solution, offering provable privacy and security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Cory Brynds , Parker McLeod , Lauren Caccamise , Asmita Pal , Dewan Saiham , Sazadur Rahman , Joshua San Miguel , Di Wu