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FDFB: Full Domain Functional Bootstrapping Towards Practical Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Authors:
Kamil Kluczniak , CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarbrücken, Germany
Leonard Schild , Independent Analyst, Saarbrücken, Germany
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DOI: 10.46586/tches.v2023.i1.501-537
URL: https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9960
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Abstract: Computation on ciphertexts of all known fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) schemes induces some noise, which, if too large, will destroy the plaintext. Therefore, the bootstrapping technique that re-encrypts a ciphertext and reduces the noise level remains the only known way of building FHE schemes for arbitrary unbounded computations. The bootstrapping step is also the major efficiency bottleneck in current FHE schemes. A promising direction towards improving concrete efficiency is to exploit the bootstrapping process to perform useful computation while reducing the noise at the same time. We show a bootstrapping algorithm, which embeds a lookup table and evaluates arbitrary functions of the plaintext while reducing the noise. Depending on the choice of parameters, the resulting homomorphic encryption scheme may be either an exact FHE or homomorphic encryption for approximate arithmetic. Since we can evaluate arbitrary functions over the plaintext space, we can use the natural homomorphism of Regev encryption to compute affine functions without bootstrapping almost for free. Consequently, our algorithms are particularly suitable for arithmetic circuits over a finite field with many additions and scalar multiplication gates. We achieve significant speedups when compared to binary circuit-based FHE. For example, we achieve 280-1200x speedups when computing an affine function of size 784 followed by any univariate function when compared to FHE schemes that compute binary circuits. With our bootstrapping algorithm, we can efficiently convert between arithmetic and boolean plaintexts and extend the plaintext space using the Chinese remainder theorem. Furthermore, we can run the computation in an exact and approximate mode where we trade-off the size of the plaintext space with approximation error. We provide a tight error analysis and show several parameter sets for our bootstrapping. Finally, we implement our algorithm and provide extensive tests. We demonstrate our algorithms by evaluating different neural networks in several parameter and accuracy settings.
BibTeX
@article{tches-2022-32694,
  title={FDFB: Full Domain Functional Bootstrapping Towards Practical Fully Homomorphic Encryption},
  journal={IACR Transactions on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems},
  publisher={Ruhr-Universität Bochum},
  volume={2023, Issue 1},
  pages={501-537},
  url={https://tches.iacr.org/index.php/TCHES/article/view/9960},
  doi={10.46586/tches.v2023.i1.501-537},
  author={Kamil Kluczniak and Leonard Schild},
  year=2022
}