Homomorphic Encryption library or HElib is a free and open-source cross platform software developed by IBM that implements various forms of homomorphic encryption.
History
HElib was primarily developed by Shai Halevi and Victor Shoup, shortly after Craig Gentry was a researcher at IBM, with the initial release being on May 5, 2013.3
Features
The library implements the Brakerski-Gentry-Vaikuntanathan (BGV) fully homomorphic encryption scheme, as well as optimizations such as Smart-Vercauteren ciphertext packing techniques.4
HElib is written in C++ and uses the NTL mathematical library.
References
An Implementation of homomorphic encryption., homenc, 2019-11-20, archived from the original on 2019-05-01, retrieved 2019-11-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20190501234944/https://github.com/homenc/HElib ↩
Lanet, Jean-Louis; Toma, Cristian (2019). Innovative Security Solutions for Information Technology and Communications: 11th International Conference, SecITC 2018, Bucharest, Romania, November 8-9, 2018, Revised Selected Papers. Springer. p. 427. ISBN 9783030129422. 9783030129422 ↩
"IBM takes a big new step in cryptography: practical homomorphic encryption". Naked Security. 2013-05-05. Archived from the original on 2018-10-06. Retrieved 2019-11-20. https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2013/05/05/ibm-takes-big-new-step-in-cryptography/ ↩
Halevi, Shai; Shoup, Victor (2014). "Algorithms in HElib". In Garay, Juan A.; Gennaro, Rosario (eds.). Advances in Cryptology – CRYPTO 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 8616. Springer Berlin Heidelberg. pp. 554–571. doi:10.1007/978-3-662-44371-2_31. ISBN 9783662443712. 9783662443712 ↩