Homomorphic Encryption Resources
Educational resources to pursue a career, develop skills, and stay up-to-date in fully homomorphic encryption (FHE).
*Image from Securing Machine Learning Workflows through Homomorphic Encryption https://securing.ai/ai-security/homomorphic-encryption-ml/
Organizations
- HomomorphicEncryption.org global community fostering standardization and interoperability of HE libraries and practices, with links to libraries. https://homomorphicencryption.org/
- FHE.org global community with MeetUps and recorded presentations. https://fhe.org/
Videos
- A Decade (or so) of fully homomorphic encryption, by Craig Gentry https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=487AjvFW1lk&ab_channel=IACR
- 001 Introduction to Homomorphic Encryption w/ Pascal Paillier https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umqz7kKWxyw&ab_channel=FHE_org
- FHE.org Resources, a large collection of recorded presentations, primarily more technical. https://fhe.org/resources
- Zama YouTube Channel, accessible videos and tutorials https://www.youtube.com/@zama_fhe/videos
Blogs and Forums
- Zama Blog updates on TFHE, concrete libraries, and FHE-based machine learning tools. https://www.zama.ai/blog
- Crypto Stack Exchange Community-driven Q&A with occasional posts on HE-specific algorithms, libraries, and use cases. https://crypto.stackexchange.com/search?q=FHE
- Niobium Microsystems Blog https://niobiummicrosystems.com/insights/blog/
Software, Libraries, and Tools
OpenFHE CKKS, BGV, BFV, and FHEW/TFHE Libraries
- Website: https://openfhe.org/
- The OpenFHE library with C++ API: https://github.com/openfheorg/openfhe-development
- OpenFHE Python wrapper: https://github.com/openfheorg/openfhe-python
- OpenFHE Rust wrapper: https://github.com/fairmath/openfhe-rs
Zama TFHE Libraries
- Website: https://www.zama.ai/
- TFHE-rs: https://github.com/zama-ai/tfhe-rs Rust-based FHE framework focused on TFHE with support for privacy-preserving machine learning.
- Concrete: https://github.com/zama-ai/concrete Python
- Concrete-ML: https://github.com/zama-ai/concrete-ml Concrete + Machine Learning
- fhEVM: https://github.com/zama-ai/fhevm-solidity enables confidential smart contracts on the EVM in solidity.
Microsoft SEAL
- Website: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/microsoft-seal/
- GitHub: https://github.com/microsoft/SEAL widely-used C++ library for BFV and CKKS schemes, with extensive documentation.
HElib
- GitHub: https://github.com/homenc/HElib C++ library supporting BGV and CKKS schemes, designed for general-purpose homomorphic encryption