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Accelerating HE Operations from Key Decomposition Technique

Authors:
Miran Kim , Hanyang University
Dongwon Lee , Seoul National University
Jinyeong Seo , Seoul National University
Yongsoo Song , Seoul National University
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-38551-3_3 (login may be required)
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Conference: CRYPTO 2023
Abstract: Lattice-based homomorphic encryption (HE) schemes are based on the noisy encryption technique, where plaintexts are masked with some random noise for security. Recent advanced HE schemes rely on a decomposition technique to manage the growth of noise, which involves a conversion of a ciphertext entry into a short vector followed by multiplication with an evaluation key. Prior to this work, the decomposition procedure turns out to be the most time-consuming part, as it requires discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) over the base ring for efficient polynomial arithmetic. In this paper, an expensive decomposition operation over a large modulus is replaced with relatively cheap operations over a ring of integers with a small bound. Notably, the cost of DFTs is reduced from quadratic to linear with the level of a ciphertext without any extra noise growth. We demonstrate the implication of our approach by applying it to the key-switching procedure. Our experiments show that the new key-switching method achieves a speedup of 1.2--2.3 or 2.1--3.3 times over the previous method, when the dimension of a base ring is $2^{15}$ or $2^{16}$, respectively.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{crypto-2023-33207,
  title={Accelerating HE Operations from Key Decomposition Technique},
  publisher={Springer-Verlag},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-031-38551-3_3},
  author={Miran Kim and Dongwon Lee and Jinyeong Seo and Yongsoo Song},
  year=2023
}