FHE.org digest #25: 2024 One-year Review, FHE.org 2025 Conference, Upcoming Winter Meetups, Latest updates
Latest news from the FHE.org community
The 2024 one-year review from FHE.org is here!
We are celebrating another remarkable year of advancements for the FHE space, thanks to you! 🫵
🗓️ FHE.org Sofia 2025 Conference
A reminder to our community to join us at the 4th Annual FHE.org Conference on Fully Homomorphic Encryption, colocated with Real World Crypto 2025 in Sofia, Bulgaria, on March 25, 2025! As last year, students can register for free by emailing contact@fhe.org from their academic email address.
This year there will only be 200 seats available, so reserve them early!
Accepted presentations will be announced January 24th, 2025.
🎓 Academic Conferences
Asiacrypt was held in Kolkata, India, this month — and there were several works presented on FHE, including:
Faster BGV Bootstrapping for Power-of-two Cyclotomics through Homomorphic NTT by Shihe Ma, Tairong Huang, Anyu Wang, and Xiaoyun Wang
HELIOPOLIS: Verifiable Computation over Homomorphically Encrypted Data from Interactive Oracle Proofs is Practical by Diego F. Aranha, Anamaria Costache, Antonio Guimarães and Eduardo Soria-Vazquez
Homomorphic sign evaluation with a RNS representation of integers by Philippe Chartier, Michel Koskas, Mohammed Lemou and Florian Méhats
NTRU-based Bootstrapping for MK-FHEs without using Overstretched Parameters by Binwu Xiang, Jiang Zhang, Kaixing Wang, Yi Deng, Dengguo Feng
Low Communication Threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption by Alain Passelègue and Damien Stehlé
Bootstrapping Small Integers With CKKS by Youngjin Bae, Jaehyung Kim, Damien Stehlé and Elias Suvanto
Relaxed Functional Bootstrapping: A New Perspective on BGV/BFV Bootstrapping by Zeyu Liu and Yunhao Wang
Revisiting Key Decomposition Techniques for FHE: Simpler, Faster and More Generic by Mariya Georgieva Belorgey, Sergiu Carpov, Nicolas Gama, Sandra Guasch and Dimitar Jetchev
❄️ Winter Meetup agenda schedule
Register for the next meetup, General Functional Bootstrapping using CKKS by Yuriy Polyakov on Jan 16th, 2025 at 4PM CEST
Make sure to subscribe to the new meetups page on lu.ma to get notified about all future FHE.org meetups.
Got a paper or presentation you think would make a good meetup? Get in touch at contact@fhe.org
📰🕺 Latest updates from the FHE.org community.
Check out the resources from meetups since the last digest:
Meet the Community w/ Enrico Bottazzi
Meet the Community w/ Jérôme Nguyen
Contributions to the FHE.org resources page you might have missed:
Starting in 2025 FHE.org will begun piloting lu.ma as the platform for organizing the online meetups to allow for more convenient RSVPing.
Are you a PhD student in cryptography? Join the discussion on our the dedicated #phd-students channel on the FHE.org discord: https://discord.fhe.org.
Interested in joining a reading group? Join the paper reading group in #reading-group. Introduce yourself there to get started!
Don’t forget that the FHE.org website is open source and that anyone can add resources by simply opening a PR on Github: https://github.com/FHE-org/fhe-org.github.io.
💙 FHE.org is an open-source community of researchers and developers interested in Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), if you’d like to contribute, join the community:
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