HETest: A Homomorphic Encryption Testing Framework

Mayank Varia; Sophia Yakoubov; Yang Yang

Paper 2015/416

HETest: A Homomorphic Encryption Testing Framework

Mayank Varia, Sophia Yakoubov, and Yang Yang

Abstract

In this work, we present a generic open-source software framework that can evaluate the correctness and performance of homomorphic encryption software. Our framework, called HEtest, automates the entire process of a test: generation of data for testing (such as circuits and inputs), execution of a test, comparison of performance to an insecure baseline, statistical analysis of the test results, and production of a LaTeX report. To illustrate the capability of our framework, we present a case study of our analysis of the open-source HElib homomorphic encryption software. We stress though that HEtest is written in a modular fashion, so it can easily be adapted to test any homomorphic encryption software.

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Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Implementation
Publication info: Published elsewhere. Minor revision. Workshop on Applied Homomorphic Encryption, Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2015
Keywords: homomorphic encryption testing evaluation
Contact author(s): sonka @ bu edu
History: 2015-08-08: last of 2 revisions; 2015-05-05: received; See all versions
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2015/416
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/416,
      author = {Mayank Varia and Sophia Yakoubov and Yang Yang},
      title = {{HETest}: A Homomorphic Encryption Testing Framework},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/416},
      year = {2015},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/416}
}