🎓 Academic Conferences
There were several academic conferences since the our last digest, and FHE made an appearance! At Crypto, held yearly in Santa Barbara, there was a session on FHE with four papers presented:
Exploring the Advantages and Challenges of Fermat NTT in FHE Acceleration by Andrey Kim, Ahmet Can Mert, Anisha Mukherjee, Aikata Aikata, Maxim Deryabin, Sunmin Kwon, HyungChul Kang, and Sujoy Sinha Roy
On the practical CPAD security of "exact" and threshold FHE schemes and libraries by Marina Checri, Renaud Sirdey, Aymen Boudguiga, and Jean-Paul Bultel
How to Construct Quantum FHE, Generically by Aparna Gupte and Vinod Vaikuntanathan
Plaintext-Ciphertext Matrix Multiplication and FHE Bootstrapping: Fast and Fused by Youngjin Bae, Jung Hee Cheon, Guillaume Hanrot, Jai Hyun Park, and Damien Stehlé
At SAC (Selected Areas in Cryptography, Canada’s yearly conference on cryptography), held in Montréal, there were FHE-based presentations on:
Multi-Key Homomorphic Encryption with Threshold Re-Encryption by Akira Nakashima, Yukimasa Sugizaki, Hikaru Tsuchida, Takuya Hayashi, Koji Nuida, Kengo Mori, and Toshiyuki Isshiki
Revisiting Oblivious Top-k Selection with Applications to Secure k-NN Classification by Kelong Cong, Robin Geelen, Jiayi Kang, and Jeongeun Park
Feel free to let us know if you are presenting a work on FHE at an upcoming conference — we’ll be sure to include it in our digest.
🍂 Meetups Autumn lineup
Summer is almost over and meetups are right back on schedule.
Upcoming meetups include:
New Secret Keys for Enhanced Performance in (T)FHE
Privacy Preserving Machine Learning with Concrete ML
Private and Secure Fuzzy Name Matching
Designing a General-Purpose 8-bit (T)FHE Processor Abstraction
Faster NTRU-based Bootstrapping in less than 4 ms
Recent Developments in SNARKs and Their Connection to FHE
A fast heuristic for mapping Boolean circuits to functional bootstrapping
and more to come!
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📰🕺 Latest updates from the FHE.org community.
Meetups and Meet the Community
Meet the Community w/ Erin Hales
Meet the Community w/ Jeongeun Park
Meet the Community w/ Johannes Mono
Resources and news:
Privacy-Preserving ML with Fully Homomorphic Encryption, presentation done at the MIT (CSAIL) by Zama
History of FHE by the FHE.org community
A High-Level Technical Overview of Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Jeremy Kun
Human In Picture (HIP) using Concrete ML by Memento Research
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