Improved key generation for gentry's fully homomorphic encryption scheme

  • Authors:
  • Peter Scholl;Nigel P. Smart

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom;Dept. Computer Science, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • IMACC'11 Proceedings of the 13th IMA international conference on Cryptography and Coding
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A key problem with the original implementation of the Gentry Fully Homomorphic Encryption scheme was the slow key generation process. Gentry and Halevi provided a fast technique for 2-power cyclotomic fields. We present an extension of the Gentry---Halevi key generation technique for arbitrary cyclotomic fields. Our new method is roughly twice as efficient as the previous best methods. Our estimates are backed up with experimental data.