FHE.org digest #29: Academic Conferences and Upcoming Meetups
Latest news from the FHE.org community.
🎫 Academic Conferences
This month, the first issue of the second volume of the Communications in Cryptology journal has been released. This edition contains several publications based on homomorphic encryption:
Fully Composable Homomorphic Encryption by Daniele Micciancio
On Circuit Private, Multikey and Threshold Approximate Homomorphic Encryption by Kamil Kluczniak, Giacomo Santato
Relations Among New CCA Security Notions for Approximate FHE by Chris Brzuska, Sébastien Canard, Caroline Fontaine, Duong Hieu Phan, David Pointcheval, Marc Renard, and Renaud Sirdey
Designs for practical SHE schemes based on Ring-LWR by Madalina Bolboceanu, Anamaria Costache, Erin Hales, Rachel Player, Miruna Rosca, and Radu Titiu
Fast Plaintext-Ciphertext Matrix Multiplication from Additively Homomorphic Encryption by Krishna Sai Tarun Ramapragada, and Utsav Banerjee
Further Improvements in AES Execution over TFHE by Sonia Belaïd, Nicolas Bon, Aymen Boudguiga, Renaud Sirdey, Daphné Trama, and Nicolas Ye
The 2025 edition of the Financial Cryptography conference was also held this month in Miyakojima, Japan, and featured some work on FHE:
Overlapped Bootstrapping for FHEW/TFHE and Its Application to SHA3. by Deokhwa Hong, Youngjin Choi, Yongwoo Lee, and Young-Sik Kim
Leveraging Homomorphic Encryption for Maximally Extractable Value (MEV) Mitigation: Enabling Blind Arbitrage on Decentralised Exchanges. by Jonathan Passerat-Palmbach
🎤 Upcoming Meetups
Don’t miss the meetup, Practical TFHE Ciphertext Sanitization for Oblivious Circuit Evaluation w/ Intak Hwang.
Other upcoming meetups by various presenters include:
Ciphertext-Ciphertext Matrix Multiplication: Fast for Large Matrices
Somewhat Homomorphic Encryption from Sparse LPN
And more!
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📰🕺 Latest Updates from the FHE.org Community
Previous Meetups and Meet the Community interviews you may have missed:
Bit Security: Optimal Adversaries, Equivalence Results, and a Toolbox w/ Daniele Micciancio
Exploring General Cyclotomic Rings in Torus-Based FHE: Prime Power Instances w/ Mohammed Lemou
Resources:
End-to-End Encrypted Audio Calls via Blind Audio Mixing by Emad Heydari Beni, Lode Hoste, Geert Heyman, Paschalis Tsiaflakis, Barry van Leeuwen, Robin Geelen, Marc Rivinius, and Claudia Bartoli
Apple's Deployment of Homomorphic Encryption at Scale by Rehan Rishi, Haris Mughees, Fabian Boemer, Karl Tarbe, Nicholas Genise, Akshay Wadia, and Ruiyu Zhu
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