FHE.org digest #26: Conference Updates, Upcoming Meetups and Events
Latest news from the FHE.org community.
🎉 FHE.org 2025 Conference Updates
This month, the Program Committee finalized decisions for the FHE.org 2025 conference program. Congratulations to everyone who had a submission accepted! The accepted papers and posters are listed below. For information on the conference program, check out the conference webpage.
📝 Accepted Papers
Homomorphic Matrix Operations under Bicyclic Encoding by Jingwei Chen
Blind zkSNARKs for Private Proof Delegation and Verifiable Computation over Encrypted Data by Mariana Gama, Emad Heydari Beni, Jiayi Kang, Jannik Spiessens, and Frederik Vercauteren
Fully Homomorphic Encryption for Cyclotomic Prime Moduli by Robin Geelen and Frederik Vercauteren
Strong IND-CPAD Security for FHE (Essentially) for Free by Olivier Bernard, Marc Joye, Nigel Smart, and Michael Walter
Compact 1-Round Threshold Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption Setup From Public Aggregatable Transcripts by Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Christian Mouchet, and Janmajaya Mall
Privacy-Preserving Collision-Risk Assessment for LEO Satellites by Svenja Lage, Felicitas Hoermann, Felix Hanke, and Michael Karl
Precision Tools for FHE Parameter Selection by Beatrice Biasioli, Elena Kirshanova, Chiara Marcolla, and Sergi Rovira
Verifiable Computation for Approximate Homomorphic Encryption Schemes by Ignacio Cascudo, Anamaria Costache, Daniele Cozzo, Dario Fiore, Antonio Guimarães, and Eduardo Soria-Vazquez
Updates on the HEIR compiler project by Jeremy Kun
OpenFHE: Open-Source Fully Homomorphic Encryption Library by Yuriy Polyakov and Kurt Rohloff
FHE Deployment Challenges for Secure Cloud Computing by Flavio Bergamaschi, Anamaria Costache, Tikaram Sanyashi, and Alexander Viand
Reducing Encrypted Matrix Multiplication to Plaintext Matrix Multiplication by Craig Gentry
Ciphertext-Simulatable HE from BFV with Randomized Evaluation by Intak Hwang, Seonhong Min, and Yongsoo Song
🪧 Accepted Posters
FINALLY: A Multi-Key FHE Scheme Based on NTRU and LWE by Jeongeun Park, Barry van Leeuwen, and Oliver Zajonc
Adaptive Successive Over-Relaxation Method for a Faster Iterative Approximation of Homomorphic Operations by Jungho Moon, Zhanibek Omarov, Donghoon Yoo, Yongdae An, and Heewon Chung
Designing a General-Purpose 8-bit (T)FHE Processor Abstraction by Daphné Trama, Pierre-Emmanuel Clet, Aymen Boudguiga, Renaud Sirdey, and Nicolas Ye
AES Is Not Enough: Let's Run Other Block Ciphers Over TFHE by Daphné Trama, Aymen Boudguiga, and Renaud Sirdey
Relations Among New CCA Security Notions for Approximate FHE by Sébastien Canard, Caroline Fontaine, Duong Hieu Phan, David Pointcheval, Marc Renard, and Renaud Sirdey
Ecosystems, Business Models and Market Demand for PETs: Insights from Homomorphic Encryption and Synthetic Data by Nicholas Martin and Frederik M. Metzger
Fast Homomorphic Evaluation of LWR-based PRFs and Application to Transciphering by Amit Deo, Marc Joye, Benoit Libert, Benjamin R. Curtis, and Mayeul de Bellabre
On Algebraic Homomorphic Encryption and its Applications to Doubly-Efficient PIR by Hiroki Okada, Rachel Player, Simon Pohmann, and Christian Weinert
Extended External Products of Ciphertexts with Automorphisms and Applications by Olivier Bernard and Marc Joye
RevoLUT: Rust Efficient Versatile Oblivious Look-Up-Tables by Sofiane Azogagh, Aubin Birba, Marc-Olivier Killijian, and Félix Larose-Gervais
Confidential ERC20 Framework using Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) by Remi Gai, Darren Kong, Deep Gandhi, Kaili Wang, and Jacob Hirshman
Phantom Zone Library by Janmajaya Mall and Jean-Philippe Bossuat
SoK: Fully-Homomorphic Encryption in Smart Contracts by Daniel Aronoff, Adithya Bhat, Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Mohsen Minaei, Srinivasan Raghuraman, Robert Townsend, and Nicolas Zhang
PowerSoftmax: Towards Secure LLM Inference Over FHE by Itamar Zimerman, Allon Adir, Ehud Aharoni, Matan Avitan, Moran Baruch, Nir Drucker, Ramy Masalha, Reut Meiri, and Omri Soceanu
DSP Optimized Fully Pipelined NTT Architecture for FHE Applications by Emre Kocer, Tolun Tosun, Selim Kırbıyık, Ersin Alaybeyoğlu, and Erkay Savas
A Matter of Correctness: Selecting Optimal BFV Parameters and Preventing Key-Recovery Attacks by Beatrice Biasioli and Chiara Marcolla
Fully Homomorphic Encryption from Slot Blind Rotation Technique by Seonhong Min and Yongsoo Song
Practical Sanitization for TFHE by Intak Hwang, Seonhong Min, and Yongsoo Song
TopGear 2.0: Accelerated Authenticated Matrix Triple Generation with Scalable Prime Fields via Optimized HE Packing by Hyunho Cha, Intak Hwang, Seonhong Min, Jinyeong Seo, and Yongsoo Song
Arithmetization for BFV & BGV Circuits Exploiting the Polynomial Ring by Jelle Vos, Mauro Conti, and Zekeriya Erkin
Like 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 with 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!
A big thanks to the FHE.org 2025 conference sponsors this year for their generousity in helping make this event a possibility!
See the growing list of sponsors for this and previous years here. If you or your organization would like to sponsor the event this year, reach out to us at contact@fhe.org!
🎤 Upcoming Meetups
Don’t miss the meetup, Relaxed Functional Bootstrapping: A New Perspective on BGV and BFV Bootstrapping w/ Zeyu Liu.
Other upcoming meetups by various presenters include:
Low Communication Threshold Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Bit Security: Optimal Adversaries, Equivalence Results, and a Toolbox for Computational-statistical Security Analysis
And more!
Couldn’t make it to a previous meetup? Check the meetups page on FHE.org for recordings and resources from all previous meetups.
Make sure you’re subscribed to this digest 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.
🎉 Upcoming FHE Events
The 8th HomomorphicEncryption.org Standards Meeting is being held in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 23rd, 2025. For more information see their conference webpage.
📰🕺 Latest Updates from the FHE.org Community
Previous Meetups and Meet the Community interviews you may have missed:
065 General Functional Bootstrapping using CKKS w/ Yuriy Polyakov
066 Homomorphic Sign Evaluation with a RNS Representation of Integers w/ Philippe Chartier
Meet the Community w/ Sergiu Carpov
Meet the Community w/ Dan Boneh
Meet the Community w/ Lea Nürnberger
Meet the Community w/ Andrei Stoian
Meet the Community w/ Nigel Smart
Meet the Community w/ Yuriy Polyakov
Meet the Community w/ Ugur Atmaca
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