Paper 2009/571 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2009/571 ↗
Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Relatively Small Key and Ciphertext Sizes
Abstract
We present a fully homomorphic encryption scheme which has both relatively small key and ciphertext size. Our construction follows that of Gentry by producing a fully homomorphic scheme from a “somewhat” homomorphic scheme. For the somewhat homomorphic scheme the public and private keys consist of two large integers (one of which is shared by both the public and private key) and the ciphertext consists of one large integer. As such, our scheme has smaller message expansion and key size than Gentry’s original scheme. In addition, our proposal allows efficient fully homomorphic encryption over any field of characteristic two.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
PDF- Category
- Public-key cryptography
- Publication info
- Preprint.
- History
- 2009-12-22: last updated
- 2009-12-01: published
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2009/571
- License
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2009/571,
author = {N. P. Smart and F. Vercauteren},
title = {Fully Homomorphic Encryption with Relatively Small Key and Ciphertext Sizes},
howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2009/571},
year = {2009},
url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2009/571}
}