IACR News item: 16 July 2015
Yoshinori Aono, Takuya Hayashi, Le Trieu Phong, Lihua Wang
ePrint Report- linear regression using gradient descent, namely finding a reasonable linear relation between data items which remain encrypted. Compared to the best previous work over a simulated dataset of $10^8$ records each with 20 features, our system dramatically reduces the server running time from about 8.75 hours (of the previous work) to only about 10 minutes.
- biometric authentication, in which we show how to reduce ciphertext sizes by half and to do the computation at the server very fast, compared with the state-of-the-art.
Moreover, as key rotation is a vital task in practice and is recommended by many authorized organizations for key management,
- we show how to do key rotation over encrypted data, without any decryption involved, and yet homomorphic properties of ciphertexts remain unchanged. In addition, our method of doing key rotation handles keys of different security levels (e.g., 80- and 128-bit securities), so that the security of ciphertexts and keys in our scheme can be \"updated\", namely can be changed into a higher security level.
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