Design and implementation of HElib: a homomorphic encryption library

Shai Halevi; Victor Shoup

Paper 2020/1481

Design and implementation of HElib: a homomorphic encryption library

Shai Halevi and Victor Shoup

Abstract

HElib is a C++ open source library (see https://github.com/homenc/HElib) that implements both the BGV and CKKS fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes. This document summarizes some of the basic design principles of HElib, and describes some of its fundamental algorithms and data structures in signiﬁcant detail. It is a work in progress, and currently focuses exclusively on the BGV scheme.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Implementation
Publication info: Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords: fully homomorphic encryption
Contact author(s): shoup @ cs nyu edu
History: 2020-11-29: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2020/1481
License: CC BY

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2020/1481,
      author = {Shai Halevi and Victor Shoup},
      title = {Design and implementation of {HElib}: a homomorphic encryption library},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2020/1481},
      year = {2020},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1481}
}