Virtual Corona Edition, Dec 15, 2020
Webex Event
Proceedings:
HomomorphicEncryption.org Consortium doi.org/10.25835/0072999
ISBN 978-3-00-067798-4
DATES
Submission Deadline: Nov 8, 2020Acceptance Notice: Nov 24, 2020Camera Ready Due: Dec 1,2020Workshop: Dec 15, 2020 | 14-17h35 UTC
AGENDA
Tuesday December 15, 2020 | 14h UTC – 17h35 UTC
14h00 UTC: Welcome
14h05-14h30 UTC: Tabitha Ogilvie, Rachel Player and Joe Rowell. Improved privacy-preserving training using fixed-Hessian minimisation. Paper. Slides.
14h35-15h00 UTC: Eric Crockett. A Low-Depth Homomorphic Circuit for Logistic Regression Model Training. Paper.
15h05-15h30 UTC: Jan Pennekamp, Patrick Sapel, Ina Berenice Fink, Simon Wagner, Sebastian Reuter, Christian Hopmann, Klaus Wehrle and Martin Henze. Revisiting the Privacy Needs of Real-World Applicable Company Benchmarking. Paper. Slides.
15h35-16h00 UTC: Cheng Chen, Nicholas Genise, Daniele Micciancio, Yuriy Polyakov and Kurt Rohloff. Implementing Token-Based Obfuscation under (Ring) LWE. Paper. Slides.
16h05-16h45 UTC (demo): Ilaria Chillotti, Marc Joye, Damien Ligier, Jean-Baptiste Orfila and Samuel Tap. CONCRETE: Concrete Operates oN Ciphertexts Rapidly by Extending TfhE. Paper.
16h50-17h35 UTC (demo): Christian Mouchet, Jean-Philippe Bossuat, Juan Troncoso-Pastoriza and Jean-Pierre Hubaux. Lattigo: a Multiparty Homomorphic Encryption Library in Go. Paper. Slides.
SCOPE AND TOPICS
Secure computation is becoming a key feature of future information systems. Distributed network applications and cloud architectures are at danger because lots of personal consumer data is aggregated in all kinds of formats and for various purposes. Industry and consumer electronics companies are facing massive threats like theft of intellectual property and industrial espionage. Public infrastructure has to be secured against sabotage and manipulation. A possible solution is encrypted computing: Data can be processed on remote, possibly insecure resources, while program code and data is encrypted all the time. This allows to outsource the computation of confidential information independently from the trustworthiness or the security level of the remote system. The technologies and techniques discussed in this workshop are a key to extend the range of applications that can be securely outsourced.
The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers with practitioners and industry to present, discuss and to share the latest progress in the field. We want to exchange ideas that address real-world problems with practical approaches and solutions.
AUDIENCE
Professionals, researchers and practitioners in the area of computer security and applied cryptography with an interest in practical applications of homomorphic encryption, encrypted computing, functional encryption and secure function evaluation, private information retrieval and searchable encryption.
TOPICS
- Software architectures for encrypted applications
- Platform and system integration for encrypted applications
- Algorithmic primitives for encrypted applications
- Hybrid (partly encrypted) applications
- Hardware implementations of encrypted computing
- Implementation of homomorphic encryption schemes and multiparty computation
- Practical performance evaluations of encrypted computing
- Practical aspects of functional encryption
- Privacy-preserving set operations
- Secure information sharing
- Circuit transformation of algorithms
- Obfuscation techniques
- Encrypted search schemes
- Encrypted e-payment solutions
- Encrypted financial transactions
- Encrypted applications in bio-informatics
- Encrypted computing for social good
SUBMISSION
Proceedings of the workshop will be published by the HomomorphicEncryption.org consortium in an open-access manner.
A paper submitted to WAHC must be written in English and be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or any identifying citations. It should begin with a title and a short abstract. Submissions must be single PDF files, no more than 12 pages long in double-column ACM format (the sigconf template from https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template, with a simpler version at https://github.com/acmccs/format), including references and appendices. Authors should not change the font or the margins of the ACM format. We also encourage authors to submit Demos which are limited to 6 pages and feature an oral presentation with an extensive code review.
Paper must be submitted to our Easychair instance.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Michael Brenner, U Hannover, Germany
Tancrède Lepoint, Google, USA
Kurt Rohloff, NJIT and Duality, USA
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
| Carsten | Baum | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| Fabian | Boemer | Intel | US |
| Joppe | Bos | NXP Semiconductors | Belgium |
| Zvika | Brakerski | Weizmann Institute of Science | Israel |
| Yilei | Chen | VISA Research | USA |
| Jung Hee | Cheon | Seoul National University | South Korea |
| Ilaria | Chillotti | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium |
| Seung Geol | Choi | US Naval Academy | US |
| Anamaria | Costache | Intel | US |
| Geoffroy | Couteau | ENS, CNRS, INRIA | France |
| Wei | Dai | Microsoft Research | US |
| Mamadou | Diallo | US Navy | US |
| Adriá | Gasçon | The Alan Turing Institute | UK |
| Kim | Laine | Microsoft | US |
| Changmin | Lee | KIAS | South Korea |
| Emmanuela | Orsini | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | Belgium |
| Rachel | Player | Royal Holloway, University of London | UK |
| Yuriy | Polyakov | NJIT | US |
| Peter | Rindal | Visa Research | US |
| Peter | Scholl | Aarhus University | Denmark |
| Frederik | Vercauteren | K.U.Leuven – ESAT/COSIC | Belgium |
| Srinivas | Vivek | International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore | India |
| Adrian | Waller | Thales Research & Technology Ltd. | UK |
| Hayato | Yamana | Waseda University | Japan |