FHE.org digest #22
Latest news from the FHE.org community.
🎉 FHE.org 2025 Conference in Sofia
Last week we officially announced the FHE.org 2025 conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. As with previous years and as an RWC affiliated event, our 4th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption is collocated with Real World Crypto 2025 and will be held at the Grand Hotel Millennium Sofia, 89B Vitosha Blvd, 1463, Sofia (Bulgaria) on March 25, 2025.
We also announced that Miran Kim (Hanyang University, Korea) and Shai Halevi (AWS) will serve as the Program Chairs for the 2025 edition of the FHE.org conference. We thank our advisory board for selecting the chairs and look forward to seeing everyone back in 2025 for a whole day of feature presentation sessions, poster sessions, invited speakers, and a DJ’ed party and dinner.
If you’d like to register, use https://fhe.org/2025/register. For students, reach out to us at contact@fhe.org from your academic email address and let us know you’d like to attend to apply for waiving your registration fees.
For organizations interested in showing their support alongside the list of annual sponsors for the conference, reach out to contact@fhe.org. See last year’s sponsors page for a list of previous sponsors.
🍂 Upcoming Autumn Meetups
Don’t miss next Thursday’s meetup, Private and Secure Fuzzy Name Matching w/ Harsh Kasyap and Ugur Atmaca, researchers in Alan Turing Institute, as they present a novel privacy-preserving approach for fuzzy name matching across institutions.
Other upcoming meetups by various presenters include:
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!
Make sure to subscribe to the Meetup page to get notifications of all future FHE.org Meetups as they are scheduled.
Got a paper or presentation you think the community might be interested in or would make a good meetup? Get in touch at contact@fhe.org
🎓 Academic Conferences
There were several academic conferences which took place, or were announced, since our last digest:
The Homomorphic Encryption Standards Meeting and the Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography will take place on October 13th and 14th, respectively, located in Salt Lake City, USA. The event is colocated with CCS’24. See here for more details.
NIST ran a workshop on Privacy Enchancing Cryptography (PEC), which included a whole day on FHE! Full details can be found on the event webpage.
The 14th International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks – SCN 2024 had a session on FHE, and included works on:
Faster Private Decision Tree Evaluation for Batched Input from Homomorphic Encryption by Kelong Cong, Jiayi Kang, Georgio Nicolas, Jeongeun Park
An Improved Threshold Homomorphic Cryptosystem Based on Class Groups by Lennart Braun, Guilhem Castagnos, Ivan Damgård, Fabien Laguillaumie, Kelsey Melissaris, Claudio Orlandi, and Ida Tucker
Attribute-based Keyed Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Keita Emura, Shingo Sato, and Atsushi Takayasu
📰🕺 Latest updates from the FHE.org community.
Previous Meetups and Meet the Community interviews you may have missed:
Meetup 057 - New Secret Keys for Enhanced Performance in (T)FHE w/ Loris Bergerat
Meetup 058 - Concrete ML - Machine Learning on Encrypted Data w/ Andrei Stoian
Meet the Community w/ Jinyeong Seo
Meet the Community w/ Song Bian
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