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Homomorphic encryption has largely been studied in context of public key cryptosystems. But there are applications which inherently would require symmetric keys. We propose a symmetric key encryption scheme with fully homomorphic evaluation capabilities. The operations are matrix based, that is the scheme consists of mapping the operations on integers to operations on matrix. We aim at proposing an idea how a fully homomorphic scheme with symmetric keys can be inculcated into application like private data processing. We propose ideas for primitives required in a FHE scheme to make it practical and more useful. Certain applications which can benefit from homomorphic encryption involve more than one party, such as multiparty computation. Majority of the proposed schemes have not explored this area. Our proposal aims at answering this. The proposed scheme is computationally light, efficient, multi-hop, circuit-private and can be deployed in multiple user environment. It derives its security from hardness of factorizing a large integer, which is basis of many public key cryptosystems. Besides the primitives for encryption, decryption and evaluation, we have included primitives which are useful to adapt the scheme to specific applications of delegating computation and data access control in multiuser environments like that of cloud computing. We also include a protocol which uses the proposed scheme for private data processing in clouds. It can easily be extended for keyword search in indices of encrypted databases, PIR and electronic voting. We also propose possible variants which give an idea of how can a fully homomorphic encryption scheme be designed using symmetric keys. We have also included a checklist of properties of a homomorphic scheme when employing it to certain application and tallied our proposal against it. We have presented security analysis of our scheme along with formal proofs. The performance of the scheme has been compared with current efficient schemes.
Fully homomorphic encryption equating to cloud security: An approach
IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering, 2013
As the data storage challenge continues to grow for insurers and everyone else, one of the obvious solutions is cloud technology. Storing data on remote servers rather than in-house is definitely a money-saver, but in insurance circles, the worry has been that having critical data reside outside the physical and virtual walls of the insurance enterprise is a risky situation. As the IT field is rapidly moving towards Cloud Computing, software industry's focus is shifting from developing applications for PCs to Data Centers and Clouds that enable millions of users to make use of software simultaneously. "Attempting computation on sensitive data stored on shared servers leaves that data exposed in ways that traditional encryption techniques can't protect against," the article notes. "The main problem is that to manipulate the data, it has to be decoded first". Now a new method, called fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that performs computation with the encrypted data and send to the client and offers a realistic hope that such calculations can be performed securely in the cloud.