Thank you for a fun and successful event!
Date: Sunday October 13, 2024
Location:
Emigration Room
This Is The Place Heritage Park
2601 Sunnyside Ave S, Salt Lake City, UT 84108, United States
https://maps.app.goo.gl/nSZVAzrzmhUQN4WUA
Co-located with:
– Oct. 14th, 2024: WAHC 2024 – 12th Workshop on Encrypted Computing & Applied Homomorphic Cryptography
– Oct. 15th-17th 2024: ACM CCS 2024 conference
This meeting is co-located with WAHC and ACM CCS but is independent of these two events. This meeting is organized by the HomomorphicEncryption.org steering committee members.
Overview
Based on the success of our previous standards meetings, and the founding of the HomomorphicEncryption.org group, we are pleased to announce the 7th HomomorphicEncryption.org Workshop. The workshop is targeted at application developers, security practitioners, and homomorphic encryption experts. Along with technical standards discussions, the program also includes sessions on software tools for developing and benchmarking homomorphic encryption solutions, hardware acceleration approaches, and industry applications of homomorphic encryption. The workshop is also a great place for PhD students to meet representatives from industry and academia.
We will return to the US for this event, with a clear target to strengthen the engagement with the broader FHE and cybersecurity communities and raise awareness among end-users and potential adopters of homomorphic encryption.
Please note that the workshop will take place in-person. If you would like to contribute to, or suggest, topics in the agenda, please, let us know.
Thanks in advance. We are looking forward to seeing you in Salt Lake City!
Keynote
We are excited to announce that Remi Gai of INCO will give a keynote address to the standards meeting.
Breakout Sessions
Like all of our standards meetings, breakout sessions are a big part of our gathering and effort so we can make focused progress on specific time-sensitive and important aspects of our community development. If you attend, you will be invited to attend at least one of the breakout groups of your choice.
This year we are planning on the following break-out groups:
- Security. This breakout session focuses on developing community consensus on recent document “Security Guidelines for Implementing Homomorphic Encryption”. We expect to develop written feedback on two possible aspects for future development of this document, specifically 1) the IND-CPA^D security notion and 2) the secure use of sparse secrets in practice.
- Compilers & Tools. This session focuses on understanding needs and requirements for the “next generation” of FHE tooling, such as the open-source MLIR-based HEIR compiler. Specifically, we will be looking at how (current and upcoming) hardware accelerators might be integrated as backends to an open compiler ecosystem.
- Use Cases & Benchmarking. This breakout session focuses on both applications where FHE provides real-world value, and benchmarks that allow solution providers and users to asses the performance of solutions. Example use-cases may include ML/AI applications where the model or the query must remain secret, data-access with private queries such as PIR or PSI, and simple general-purpose program such as smart contacts in web3 architectures. A major goal of this breakout session is to continue community efforts to develop a benchmarking suite for FHE, with concrete workloads relevant to real-world applications, and the performance characteristics.
- Hardware Interfaces. This breakout session focuses on sharing advances in latest standards efforts, both de-facto and formal, around hardware-software interfaces for FHE. Recent work from large hardware vendors, FHE-focused start-ups and open-source software community efforts will be highlighted.
Agenda
The meeting will be a single-day event. Food and Coffee will be provided.
10:00 Start / Welcome & Introduction from the Steering Committee Led by Rachel Player of Royal Holloway
10:10 Keynote: Remi Gai of INCO: FHE Driving the Next Wave of Use Cases and Adoption in Web3 (Slides)
11:00 Standardization updates:
ISO: Ro Cammarota of Intel
NIST: Luis Brandao of NIST (Slides)
11:30 Coffee break (provided)
11:45 Quickfire community updates – Led by Yuriy Polyakov
12:00 Introduction to the breakout sessions:
Security – Led by Rachel Player, Yuriy Polyakov and Ro Cammarota (Slides)
Compilers & Tools – Led by Alexander Viand
Use Cases & Benchmarking – Led by Shai Halevi (Slides)
Hardware Interfaces – Led by Dave Archer, Florent Michael and Oren Yokev (Slides)
13:00 Lunch (provided)
14:00 Breakout groups collaborate/discuss
16:40 Coffee break (provided)
17:00 Summary of breakout sessions
18:00 Announcement of next HE.org meeting. Speaker TBA. 🙂
18:10 Community discussion: next steps, reflections, comments. Led by Kurt Rohloff
18:30 Official close of meeting. Optional evening networking. Led by Rachel Player
Steering Committee
Jung Hee Cheon (SNU/CryptoLab, jhcheon@snu.ac.kr)
Kristin Lauter (Meta)
Kurt Rohloff (Duality Technologies, krohloff@dualitytech.com)
Rachel Player (Royal Holloway, Rachel.Player@rhul.ac.uk)
Ro Cammarota (Intel Corp., rosario.cammarota@intel.com)
Shai Halevi (AWS)
Yuriy Polyakov (Duality Technologies, ypolyakov@dualitytech.com)
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