Protecting Privacy through Homomorphic Encryption

Kristin Estella Lauter is an American mathematician and cryptographer particularly known for her work on elliptic curve cryptography, homomorphic encryption, and post-quantum cryptography.  She is currently Head of West Coast Research Labs for FAIR (Facebook AI Research), supervising groups in Core Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Robotics, and Privacy. From 2008—2021 she was a Principal Researcher and Partner Research Manager of the Cryptography and Privacy Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, which developed Microsoft SEAL. Lauter was President of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) from 2015—2017.  She is an Elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2015), AWM (2017), the  Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2020), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021). She was the Polya Lecturer for the Mathematical Association of America for 2018—2020.  Lauter earned all her degrees in mathematics from the University of Chicago, in BA (1990),  MS (1991), and PhD (1996). Prior to joining Microsoft, she was Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan (1996-1999), Visiting Scholar at Max Planck Institut fur Mathematik in Bonn, Germany (1997), and a Visiting Researcher at Institut de Mathematiques Luminy in France (1999). She is a co-founder of the HomomorphicEncryption.org community and a Steering Committee member. Wei Dai is a senior research SDE in the Cryptography and Privacy Research group at Microsoft Research. He received a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in 2019. His research interests include applied cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, and cryptographic implementations. Wei is a contributor to the homomorphic encryption library Microsoft SEAL and leads the implementation of homomorphic encryption on alternative hardware platforms.Kim Laine is a principal researcher and research manager of the Cryptography and Privacy Research Group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. He holds a PhD in mathematics from UC Berkeley and since graduation has been working at Microsoft Research on applied cryptography and privacy-enhancing technologies. Kim’s contributions to homomorphic encryption range from academic research to development of the homomorphic encryption library Microsoft SEAL. He is a co-founder of the HomomorphicEncryption.org community and a Steering Committee member.

• Part 1: Introduction to Homomorphic Encryption (Dai).- Part 2: Homomorphic Encryption Security Standard: Homomorphic Encryption Security Standard (Laine).- Part 3: Applications of Homomorphic Encryption: Privacy-preserving Data Sharing and Computation Across Multiple Data Providers with Homomorphic Encryption (Troncoso-Pastoriza).- Secure and Confidential Rule Matching for Network Traffic Analysis (Jetchev).- Trusted Monitoring Service (TMS) (Scott).- Private Set Intersection and Compute (Kannepalli).- Part IV Applications of Homomorphic Encryption (at the Private AI Bootcamp): Private Outsourced Translation for Medical Data (Viand).- HappyKidz: Privacy Preserving Phone Usage Tracking (Hastings).- i-SEAL2: Identifying Spam EmAiL with SEAL (Froelicher).- PRIORIS: Enabling Secure Suicidal Ideation Detection from Speech using Homomorphic Machine Learning (Natarajan).- Gimme That Model!: A Trusted ML Model Trading Protocol (Lee).- HEalth: Privately Computing on Shared Healthcare Data (Hales).- Private Movie Recommendations for Children (Wagh S).- Privacy-Preserving Prescription Drug Management Using Homomorphic Encryption (Youmans).

“Homomorphic encryption appears as a very acceptable crypto-protection solution with a high level of security, which enables the processing and exchange of data in an encrypted form. … Protecting privacy through homomorphic encryption offers a certain level of help with this, providing readers with basic insights into homomorphic encryption, the problem environment, and certain practical solutions that have proven to be successful in this area.” (F. J. Ruzic, Computing Reviews, June 2, 2023)