🇨🇦 FHE.org Toronto 2024 Conference
Thank you everyone for coming together and making this year our 3rd successful annual conference with 45 submissions, 11 accepted talks, 19 accepted posters, 3 invited tutorials, 1 invited talk, 22 nationalities across 223 registered attendees, and 27 sponsors!
We’ve made all video resources from the conference available at fhe.org/2024 and all presenters are encouraged to add their posters and slides there as well. Remember that anyone can add resources to the FHE.org github repository!
See a program view of all resources here, or if you prefer to just watch the presentations back to back, here is the FHE.org Toronto 2024 Conference playlist on Youtube. These presentations are also outlined below.
🎤 Privacy-Preserving Functional Database Exploration with Lattigo
Jean-Philippe Bossuat from TuneInsight presents "Privacy-Preserving Functional Database Exploration with Lattigo".
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 An SQL-based Data Analysis Platform using Homomorphic Encryption
Jae Lee from Desilo presents "SQL-Based Data Analysis Platform Using Homomorphic Encryption", a joint presentation with Donghoon Yoo and Joohyung Lee.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 The HEIR Compiler
Jeremy Kun from Google presents "The HEIR Compiler", a joint presentation with Jeremy Kun and Asra Ali.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 Designs for Practical Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption Schemes Based on Ring-LWR
Erin Hales, a final year PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London, presents "Designs for Practical SHE Schemes Based on RLWR", a joint work with Madalina Bolboceanu, Anamaria Costache, Erin Hales, Rachel Player, Miruna Rosca, and Radu Titiu.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 Large Domain Homomorphic Evaluation in Levelled Mode
Lattigo developer Jean-Philippe Bossuat from TuneInsight presents "Large Domain Homomorphic Evaluation in Levelled Mode", a joint work with Jean-Philippe Bossuat and Malika Izabachène.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 Revisiting Key Decomposition Techniques for FHE: Simpler, Faster and More Generic
Nicolas Gama from Sandbox AQ presents "Revisiting Key Decomposition Techniques for FHE: Simpler, Faster and More Generic", a joint work with Mariya Georgieva Belorgey, Sergiu Carpov, Nicolas Gama, Sandra Guasch, and Dimitar Jetchev.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 BASALISC: Programmable Hardware Accelerator for BGV and CKKS FHE - An Interim Design Update
Dr. David W Archer from Niobium Microsystems presents "BASALISC: Integrated Hardware Acceleration for BGV, CKKS, and BFV FHE", a joint work with David Archer, Robin Geelen, and Michiel Van Beirendonck.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 On Circuit Private, Multikey and Threshold Approximate Homomorphic Encryption
Giacomo Santato, a PhD student at CISPA, presents "On Circuit Private, Multikey and Threshold Approximate Homomorphic Encryption", a joint work with Kamil Kluczniak and Giacomo Santato.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 Plug-and-play Sanitization for TFHE
Florian Bourse at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) presents "Plug-and-Play Sanitization for TFHE", a joint work with Florian Bourse and Malika Izabachène.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 HELIOPOLIS: Verifiable Computation Over HE Data from Interactive Oracle Proofs is Practical
Eduardo Soria-Vazquez from TII (tii.ae) presents "HELIOPOLIS: Verifiable Computation Over HE Data from Interactive Oracle Proofs is Practical", a joint work with Diego F. Aranha, Anamaria Costache, Antonio Guimarães, and Eduardo Soria-Vazquez.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 Security Guidelines for Implementing Homomorphic Encryption
Huijing Gong from Intel Labs presents "Security Guidelines for Implementing Homomorphic Encryption", a collaboration with Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Rosario Cammarota, Jung Hee Cheon, Ilaria Chillotti, Benjamin R. Curtis, Wei Dai, Huijing Gong, Erin Hales, Duhyeong Kim, Bryan Kumara, Changmin Lee, Xianhui Lu, Carsten Maple, Alberto Pedrouzo-Ulloa, Rachel Player, Luis Antonio Ruiz Lopez, Yongsoo Song, Donggeon Yhee, and Bahattin Yildiz.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 TFHE Simplified: A Practical Guide to Integer Arithmetic and Reliability
Jean-Baptiste Orfila from Zama presents "TFHE Simplified: A Practical Guide to Integer Arithmetic and Reliability", a joint work with Ilaria Chillotti, Sarah El Kazdadi, Damien Ligier, Arthur Meyre, Thomas Montaigu, Jean-Baptiste Orfila, and Samuel Tap.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 AutoFHE: Automated Adaption of CNNs for Efficient Evaluation over FHE
Wei Ao, a PhD student at Michigan State University presents "AutoFHE: Automated Adaption of CNNs for Efficient Evaluation over FHE", a joint work with Wei Ao and Vishnu Naresh Boddeti.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 Revisiting Oblivious Top-k Selection with Applications to Secure k-NN Classification
Robin Geelen from COSIC, KU Leuven presents "Revisiting Oblivious Top-k Selection with Applications to Secure k-NN Classification", a joint work with Kelong Cong, Robin Geelen, Jiayi Kang, and Jeongeun Park.
See the video on Youtube here.
🎤 Estimating the Difficulty of Breaking Lattice-Based Cryptography
Martin Albrecht, a professor from Kings College London and Sandbox AQ presents an invited talk on "Estimating the Difficulty of Breaking Lattice-Based Cryptography".
See the video on Youtube here.
🪧 Posters from This Year’s Conference
See the full list of resources from each poster presenter on fhe.org/2024/resources.
At Last! A Homomorphic AES Evaluation in Less than 30 Seconds by Means of TFHE by Aymen Boudguiga, Daphné Trama, Pierre-Emmanuel Clet, and Renaud Sirdey
Breaking the power-of-two barrier: noise estimation for BGV in NTT-friendly rings by Andrea Di Giusto and Chiara Marcolla
Convolution-friendly Image Compression in FHE by Axel Mertens, Georgio Nicolas, and Sergi Rovira
Edit distance in the encrypted domain by Ingrid Verbauwhede, Jan-Pieter D'Anvers, and Wouter Legiest
Faster Parameter Selection for FHE by Chiara Marcolla, Elena Kirshanova, and Sergi Rovira
Game of Life, Revisited by Benoit Chevallier-Mames and Umut Åžahin
Hardware-Accelerated Encrypted Credit Card Fraud Check by Florent Michel, Jakub Ziarno, Joseph Wilson, Nicholas New, Shuhao Yang, Thanh-Huyen Nguyen, and Victor Lisinski
Homomorphic Integer Division for TFHE by Amit Deo, Marc Joye, and Olivier Bernard
Liberate.FHE: A New FHE Library for Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice with a Focus on Performance and Accuracy by Donghoon Yoo, Hanyul Ryu, and Juwhan Kim
Low Latency Evaluation of AES via (leveled) TFHE by Benqiang Wei, Kunpeng Wang, Ruida Wang, Xianhui Lu, and Zhihao Li
Making FHE hardware-acceleration-friendly (and vice versa) by Furkan Turan, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Jan-Pieter D'Anvers, and Michiel Van Beirendonck
Multi-Objective Arithmetization and Composition of Common Primitives for Homomorphic Encryption by Jelle Vos, Mauro Conti, and Zekeriya Erkin
Neural Network Training on Encrypted Data with TFHE by Andrei Stoian, Celia Kherfallah, Jordan Frery, Luis Montero, and Roman Bredehoft
Novel uses cases enabled by FHE in Blockchain by Remi Gai
Optimized Homomorphic Evaluation of Boolean Functions and Concrete Application on Cryptographic Primitives by David Pointcheval, Matthieu Rivain, Nicolas Bon, and Sonia Belaïd
Robust FHE in Practice by Alexander Viand, Anwar Hithnawi, and Christian Knabenhans
The Inhibitor: ReLU and Addition-Based Attention for Efficient Transformers under Fully Homomorphic Encryption on the Torus by Andrei Stoian and Rickard Brännvall
Towards Practical FHE Calculations Integrity by Means of Rinocchio by Caroline Fontaine, Marc Renard, Oana Stan, and Renaud Sirdey
Towards Verifiable Bootstrapping in Practice - Proving Correct Execution of TFHE’s Blind Rotation using plonky2 by Louis Tremblay Thibault and Michael Walter
A sincere thanks to all our sponsors this year for making this conference a success! If you’d like to become a sponsor for the next conference, reach out at contact@fhe.org.
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