Homomorphic Encryption with SEAL: Investigating Security and Performance

Authors

  • Kirti Dinkar More, Dhanya Pramod , Dr. Rahul Ashokrao Patil

Keywords:

BFV, BGV, CKKS, Fully Homomorphic Encryption, SEAL, Security.

Abstract

Security is a major concern these days because of the increasing use of smart technologies and the Internet. Security is required to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the resources over the network [2]. Homomorphic encryption (HE) is privacy preserving technique for sharing of data with cloud backend securely [20]. It offers a safe environment where operations on previously encrypted data can be carried out and the outcomes will be the same as for the original data [3]. This work serves as a demonstration of practical use of homomorphic encryption, which can be used to guarantee data security and computation. We present an analysis of the fully homomorphic encryption library known as SEAL (Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library) in this work. Three SEAL supported schemes - Brakerski-Gentry- Vaikuntanathan (BGV), Brakerski-Fan- Vercauteren (BFV), and Cheon-Kim-Kim- Song (CKKS) -with default and custom degrees of polynomial are examined in relation to the outcomes produced for a range of parameters.

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24.03.2024

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Dhanya Pramod , Dr. Rahul Ashokrao Patil, K. D. M. . (2024). Homomorphic Encryption with SEAL: Investigating Security and Performance. International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications in Engineering, 12(3), 2174–2181. Retrieved from https://ijisae.org/index.php/IJISAE/article/view/5686

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Vol. 12 No. 3 (2024)

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