Practical packing method in somewhat homomorphic encryption

Masaya Yasuda*, Takeshi Shimoyama, Jun Kogure, Kazuhiro Yokoyama, Takeshi Koshiba

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Abstract

Somewhat homomorphic encryption is public key encryption supporting a limited number of both additions and multiplications on encrypted data, which is useful for performing fundamental computations with protecting the data confidentiality. In this paper, we focus on the scheme proposed by Lauter, Naehrig and Vaikuntanathan (ACM CCSW 2011), and present two types of packed ciphertexts based on their packing technique. Combinations of two types of our packing method give practical size and performance for wider computations such as statistical analysis and distances. To demonstrate its efficiency, we implemented the scheme with our packing method for secure Hamming distance, which is often used in privacy-preserving biometrics. For secure Hamming distance between two binary vekoshiba@mail.saitama-u.ac.jpctors of 2048-bit, it takes 5.31 ms on an Intel Xeon X3480 at 3.07 GHz. This gives the best performance in the state-of-the-art work using homomorphic encryption.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationData Privacy Management and Autonomous Spontaneous Security - 8th International Workshop, DPM 2013, and 6th International Workshop, SETOP 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages34-50
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9783642545672
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event8th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2013 and 6th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2013 - Egham, United Kingdom
Duration: 2013 Sept 122013 Sept 13

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8247 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other8th International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, DPM 2013 and 6th International Workshop on Autonomous and Spontaneous Security, SETOP 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEgham
Period13/9/1213/9/13

Keywords

  • Packed ciphertexts
  • Ring-LWE assumption
  • Secure Hamming distance
  • Somewhat homomorphic encryption

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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