Asiacrypt 2023 in Guangzhou: Simon Pohmann

This year’s Asiacrypt took place from 4th to 8th December in Guangzhou, China. Many of the presented works contained fascinating ideas, and I also really enjoyed many of the talks that were outside of my research area, homomorphic encryption. For example, the work of [CMT23] proposed an attack on Goppa codes based on fascinating ideas from computational algebraic geometry. Another cool work containing cryptanalysis is [WW23], who presented a potential, very insightful break of the k-R-ISIS assumption in addition to their construction of functional commitments.

The session on HE contained four talks, including our talk on using Galois automor-phisms for faster bootstrapping [OPP23]. Afterwards, Zeyu Liu presented their work on bootstrapping [LW23]. It was really nice to finally meet him and his coauthor Yunhao Wang, as we had already exchanged emails before. The other talks on HE proposed a way to compress rotation/Galois keys using a hierarchical structure [Lee+22] and improvements to the classical way of performing amortized bootstrapping [GPL23].

After that session, Jiayi Kang and me discussed the future of BFV bootstrapping. We are confident that some more improvements are possible, and is still not yet clear whether power-of-two cyclotomic rings or non-power-of-two cyclotomics are best. It’s certainly an interesting field to work in at the moment!

References:
CMT23
Alain Couvreur, Rocco Mora, and Jean-Pierre Tillich. A new approach based on quadratic forms to attack the McEliece cryptosystem. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/950. https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/950. 2023.

GPL23
Antonio Guimarães, Hilder V. L. Pereira, and Barry van Leeuwen. Amortized Bootstrapping Revisited: Simpler, Asymptotically-faster, Implemented. Cryp-tology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/014. 2023.
https://eprint.iacr. org/2023/014.

Lee+22
Joon-Woo Lee et al. Rotation Key Reduction for Client-Server Systems of Deep Neural Network on Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2022/532. 2022. 
https://eprint.iacr.org/2022/532.

LW23
Zeyu Liu and Yunhao Wang. Amortized Functional Bootstrapping in less than 7ms, with O˜(1) polynomial multiplications. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/910. 2023. 
https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/910.

OPP23
Hiroki Okada, Rachel Player, and Simon Pohmann. Homomorphic polyno-mial evaluation using Galois structure and applications to BFV bootstrapping. Cryptology ePrint Archive, Paper 2023/1304. 2023. https://eprint. iacr.org/2023/1304.

WW23
Hoeteck Wee and David J. Wu. “Lattice-Based Functional Commitments: Fast Verification and Cryptanalysis”. In: ASIACRYPT. 2023.



Comments

  1. sharon olivaApril 17, 2025 at 5:16 AM

    Simon Pohmann presented ge proton research at Asiacrypt 2023 in Guangzhou, focusing on cryptographic algorithms and their security implications.

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