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Date: Tuesday, 15/03/2016, 2:15pm
Location: J. Liivi 2, room 403
Title: Implementing Homomorphic Encryption to Enable Practical and Secure Computing
Abstract: One of the first major breakthroughs of computer science in the 21st century is the demonstration of public-key Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). FHE allows sensitive data to be encrypted such that arbitrary programs can be securely run over the encrypted data where the output, when decrypted, is equivalent to the result of running the original algorithm on the unencrypted data. Unfortunately, FHE was not practical when it was discovered - it was several orders of magnitude too inefficient to be economically feasible. This talk will review our advances in FHE, from theory, implementation and application perspectives. We discuss our implementations in both software and hardware. We also discuss ours plan to continue this R&D that will enable practical secure out-sourced computation.
Bio: Kurt Rohloff is an associate professor of computer science at NJIT in Newark, USA where is is also director of the NJIT Cybersecurity Research Center. Prior to joining NJIT he worked for 9 years in the US defense industry as a senior scientist in the Distributed Systems research group at BBN Technologies. His areas of technical expertise include large-scale distributed computing, secure computing and scalable algorithm design. He is the Principal Investigator for the PALISADE team for the DARPA SafeWare program developing open source lattice encryption technologies that enable FHE. He received his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and his Master's and PhD. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.