Configurable Encryption and Decryption Architectures for CKKS-Based Homomorphic Encryption

Autor: Jaehyeok Lee, Phap Ngoc Duong, Hanho Lee
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 23, Iss 17, p 7389 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
DOI: 10.3390/s23177389
Popis: With the increasing number of edge devices connecting to the cloud for storage and analysis, concerns about security and data privacy have become more prominent. Homomorphic encryption (HE) provides a promising solution by not only preserving data privacy but also enabling meaningful computations on encrypted data; while considerable efforts have been devoted to accelerating expensive homomorphic evaluation in the cloud, little attention has been paid to optimizing encryption and decryption (ENC-DEC) operations on the edge. In this paper, we propose efficient hardware architectures for CKKS-based ENC-DEC accelerators to facilitate computations on the client side. The proposed architectures are configurable to support a wide range of polynomial sizes with multiplicative depths (up to 30 levels) at a 128-bit security guarantee. We evaluate the hardware designs on the Xilinx XCU250 FPGA platform and achieve an average encryption time 23.7× faster than that of the well-known SEAL HE library. By reducing time complexity and improving the hardware utilization of cryptographic algorithms, our configurable CKKS-supported ENC-DEC hardware designs have the potential to greatly accelerate cryptographic processes on the client side in the post-quantum era.
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