#### Paper 2016/381

Florian Bourse, Rafaël Del Pino, Michele Minelli, and Hoeteck Wee

##### Abstract

Circuit privacy is an important property for many applications of fully homomorphic encryption. Prior approaches for achieving circuit privacy rely on superpolynomial noise flooding or on bootstrapping. In this work, we present a conceptually different approach to circuit privacy based on a novel characterization of the noise distribution. In particular, we show that a variant of the GSW FHE for branching programs already achieves circuit privacy; this immediately yields a circuit-private FHE for NC$^1$ circuits under the standard LWE assumption with polynomial modulus-to-noise ratio. Our analysis relies on a variant of the discrete Gaussian leftover hash lemma which states that $e^t \mathbf{G}^{-1}(v)+small$ $noise$ does not depend on $v$. We believe that this result is of independent interest.

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Publication info
A minor revision of an IACR publication in CRYPTO 2016
Keywords
Homomorphic EncryptionCircuit PrivacyBranching ProgramNoise FloodingLearning With ErrorsRerandomization
Contact author(s)
fbourse @ di ens fr
History
2016-06-13: last of 4 revisions
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Short URL
https://ia.cr/2016/381

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BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2016/381,
author = {Florian Bourse and Rafaël Del Pino and Michele Minelli and Hoeteck Wee},