OpenFHE: Open-Source Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library
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Al Badawi, Ahmad
Bates, Jack
Bergamaschi, Flavio
Cousins, David
Erabelli, Saroja
Genise, Nicholas
Halevi, Shai
Hunt, Hamish
Kim, Andrey
Lee, Yongwoo
Date Issued
November 7, 2022
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Association for Computing Machinery
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Ahmad Al Badawi, Jack Bates, Flavio Bergamaschi, David Bruce Cousins, Saroja Erabelli, Nicholas Genise, Shai Halevi, Hamish Hunt, Andrey Kim, Yongwoo Lee, Zeyu Liu, Daniele Micciancio, Ian Quah, Yuriy Polyakov, Saraswathy R.V., Kurt Rohloff, Jonathan Saylor, Dmitriy Suponitsky, Matthew Triplett, Vinod Vaikuntanathan, and Vincent Zucca. 2022. OpenFHE: Open-Source Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography (WAHC'22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 53–63.
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Abstract
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a powerful cryptographic primitive that enables performing computations over encrypted data without having access to the secret key. We introduce OpenFHE, a new open-source FHE software library that incorporates selected design ideas from prior FHE projects, such as PALISADE, HElib, and HEAAN, and includes several new design concepts and ideas. The main new design features can be summarized as follows: (1) we assume from the very beginning that all implemented FHE schemes will support bootstrapping and scheme switching; (2) OpenFHE supports multiple hardware acceleration backends using a standard Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL); (3) OpenFHE includes both user-friendly modes, where all maintenance operations, such as modulus switching, key switching, and bootstrapping, are automatically invoked by the library, and compiler-friendly modes, where an external compiler makes these decisions. This paper focuses on high-level description of OpenFHE design, and the reader is pointed to external OpenFHE references for a more detailed/technical description of the software library.
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WAHC ’22, November 7, 2022, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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