Next meetup (🎉 our 50th!🎉) scheduled: On the Concrete Security of Approximate FHE Schemes with Noise-Flooding Countermeasures
on May 2nd, 5pm CEST (Paris, FR)
Greetings cryptographers! It’s time to celebrate our 50th meetup! 🎉
On Nov 4th, 2020 the community’s had its first meetup — Introduction to Homomorphic Encryption with Pascal Paillier.
Since then over 50 presenters have shared their time, passion, and knowledge with the community to help build it into a thriving community of FHE researchers, developers, and professionals with over 4,300 members, regular meetups with presenters from all around the world, and an annual conference (now in cooperation with IACR) at the forefront of FHE discussions.
A lot has happened since that first meetup — the community has grown steadily, the technology improved impressively, and the world’s interest in FHE increased explosively.
You can follow the history of FHE on FHE.org/history, and also take a look at all available resources and videos of past meetups on FHE.org.
With that, it’s time to celebrate our 50th meetup!
🗓️ The next FHE.org meetup is scheduled for Thursday, May 2nd at 5pm CEST (Paris, FR).
The meetup features Hunter Kippen, who recently defended his thesis at the University of Maryland under the supervision of Professor Dana Dachman-Sole, presenting On the Concrete Security of Approximate FHE Schemes with Noise-Flooding Countermeasures.
For more information, resources, and the link to RSVP, visit:
https://fhe.org/meetups/050
Abstract
This talk covers recent work on enumerating the risks involved with deploying approximate homomorphic encryption, with CKKS as a case study. The provably secure noise flooding levels used as a countermeasure for Li-Micciancio style attacks often leave insufficient message precision available for applications. This talk will discuss the impact of smaller noise levels on the concrete security of underlying LWE instances and how this may help set policy for deployments.
About the speaker
Hunter recently defended his thesis at the University of Maryland under the supervision of Professor Dana Dachman-Soled. His research interests have mainly focused on the security of lattice problems under partial information leakage. He will be joining Samsung Research America in June to contribute to the next generation of the Knox security suite.
Resources from last meetups
Resources from this week’s meetup Convolution-friendly Image Compression in FHE with Sergi Rovira and Axel Mertens are available on the event’s information page.
You can access all resources of previous meetups on the FHE.org website here.
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