Title
HEAX: An Architecture for Computing on Encrypted Data
Abstract
With the rapid increase in cloud computing, concerns surrounding data privacy, security, and confidentiality also have been increased significantly. Not only cloud providers are susceptible to internal and external hacks, but also in some scenarios, data owners cannot outsource the computation due to privacy laws such as GDPR, HIPAA, or CCPA. Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a groundbreaking invention in cryptography that, unlike traditional cryptosystems, enables computation on encrypted data without ever decrypting it. However, the most critical obstacle in deploying FHE at large-scale is the enormous computation overhead. In this paper, we present HEAX, a novel hardware architecture for FHE that achieves unprecedented performance improvements. HEAX leverages multiple levels of parallelism, ranging from ciphertext-level to fine-grained modular arithmetic level. Our first contribution is a new highly-parallelizable architecture for number-theoretic transform (NTT) which can be of independent interest as NTT is frequently used in many lattice-based cryptography systems. Building on top of NTT engine, we design a novel architecture for computation on homomorphically encrypted data. Our implementation on reconfigurable hardware demonstrates 164-268× performance improvement for a wide range of FHE parameters.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3373376.3378523
ASPLOS '20: Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems Lausanne Switzerland March, 2020
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Fully Homomorphic Encryption,FPGAs
Conference
978-1-4503-7102-5
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
15
0.63
33
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
M. Sadegh Riazi1181.36
Kim Laine2939.83
Blake Pelton3150.63
Wei Dai49416.25