Fully Homomorphic Encryption Comes To Linux
Written by Kay Ewbank   
Friday, 31 July 2020

IBM has extended support for its Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) toolkit to include Linux distributions for IBM Z and x86 architectures. The move follows the launch a few weeks ago for MacOS and iOS, FHE provides a way to carry out computations on encrypted data without it needing to be decrypted.

For normal encryption techniques, data can be encrypted at rest and in transit, but if you want to use it, it has to be decrypted, at which point it is exposed and vulnerable to attack.  Fully Homomorphic Encryption avoids this problem by providing a way to work with the encrypted data.

key

The new FHE toolkit for Linux currently supports Ubuntu for IBM Z, and Ubuntu, Fedora, and CentOS for x86 platforms. IBM says experienced Docker developers can easily port this toolkit to their preferred distribution.

fhe

 

As with the MacOS and the iOS toolkits, the Linux version includes a demo of a privacy preserving search against an encrypted database using the English names of countries and their capital cities across Europe. IBM has also added a second demonstration for the finance industry that lets developers can detect credit card fraud by applying neural network inference over fully homomorphic encrypted datasets and models. The neural network and dataset determine fraudulent activities based on anonymized transactions. IBM plans to add AI features to the toolkits in the future.

key

More Information

FHE toolkit for Linux

IBM Research FHE Homepage

Related Articles

IBM Releases Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit  

Google Releases Open Source Cryptographic Tool

Microsoft Invents A Fast CryptoNet

Microsoft SEAL Cryptography .NET Wrapper Released

MS Cryptography Library Open Sourced

DARPA spends $20 million on homomorphic encryption

Open Source Homomorphic Cryptography

Modifiable encryption 

To be informed about new articles on I Programmer, sign up for our weekly newsletter, subscribe to the RSS feed and follow us on Twitter, Facebook or Linkedin.

Banner


Two New Instances Of The Language Server Protocol
01/05/2025

The first is in relation to Github Copilot and the second
to PostgreSQL. They enable seamless integration with any tool that supports the protocol.



Early 2025 Java Conferences Galore Part 2
16/05/2025

We continue the lowdown of Java conferences that took place in the first half of 2025. Last week we explored three Voxxed sessions, this week it's Devoxx Greece, Devoxx UK and JavaOne.


More News

espbook

 

Comments




or email your comment to: comments@i-programmer.info

Last Updated ( Friday, 31 July 2020 )