Accelerating leveled fully homomorphic encryption using GPU
Wei Wang, Zhilu Chen, Xinming Huang · 2014
Gentry introduced the first plausible fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme, which was considered a major breakthrough in cryptography. Several FHE schemes have been proposed to make FHE more efficient for practical applications since then. The leveled fully homomorphic scheme is among the most well-known schemes. In leveled FHE scheme, large-number matrix-vector multiplication is a crucial part of the encryption algorithm. In this paper, Chinese Remainder Theorem (CRT) is employed to reduce the computational complexity of the large-number element-by-element modular multiplication. The first step is called decomposition, in which each large-number element in the matrix and vector is decomposed into many small words. The next step is vector operation that performs the modular multiplications and additions of the decomposed small words. Finally the matrix-vector multiplication results can be obtained through reconstruction. We compare the CRTbased method with Number Theory Library (NTL), showing the proposed method is about 7.8 times faster when executing on CPU. In addition, it is observed that vector operation takes up to 99.6% of the total computation time and the reconstruction only takes 0.4%. Therefore GPU acceleration is employed to speed up the vector operations. Experiment results show that the GPU implementation of the CRT-based method is 35.2 times faster than the same method implemented on CPU and is 273.6 times faster than the NTL library on CPU.