July 13, 2017 - July 14, 2017

Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Workshop

Location: Redmond, WA

Day 1 – July 13, 2017

Time (PDT) Session Description
8:30 AM–9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM–9:15 AM Kickoff, Kristin Lauter Goals and structure: everyone involved in brainstorming progressing toward writing white papers that consolidate ideas, future research, standardization next steps.
9:15 AM–10:15 AM Intro lightning round: What I’m working on and what I’m excited to work on (two minutes/one slide). One PowerPoint slide describing who you are and what you are working on.
10:15 AM–10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM–12:00 PM Part 1: The State of the Art: A snapshot of the capabilities of today’s tools. 10-15 minutes with time for discussion. Leading into the issues related to workshop objectives. Demos of what HE can currently do
• SEAL: Kim Laine
• NFLlib: Pascal Pallier
• Palisade: Yuriy Polyakov
• cuHE: Berk Sunar
• Frontend for FHE: Alex Malozemoff
• HElib: Shai Halevi
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Working Lunch Lily & Pascal – the path toward standardization; overview of standardization process
1:00 PM–1:30 PM Introduction of the three tracks
• Security
• Apps
• API
Facilitators each spend 10 minutes describing tracks and participants organize into tracks
1:30 PM–2:30 PM Facilitated Breakout Groups:

Three groups loosely organized around the objectives

• Kristin and Vinod: Security track
• Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
• Kurt and Kim: API track
2:30 PM–2:45 PM Break
2:45 PM–4:30 PM Facilitated Breakout Groups:

Moving into more specificity for a path toward standardization

• Kristin and Vinod: Security track
• Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
• Kurt and Kim: API track
4:30 PM–5:00 PM Day 1 wrap up: Groups report back What we saw and heard and a bit about tomorrow
5:00 PM–8:00 PM Wine, cheese, dinner Purple Café and Wine Bar

Day 2 – July 14, 2017

Time (PDT) Session Description
8:30 AM–9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM–9:15 AM Expectations of the Day, Co-Chair By the end of the day, we will have accomplished…
9:15 AM–10:30 AM Outlines of a White Paper in groups • Kristin and Vinod: Security track
• Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
• Kurt and Kim: API track
10:45 AM–12:00 PM Continue drafting outlines for White Papers Breakout groups working together
12:00 PM–1:00 PM Working Lunch Lily and Pascal follow up discussion
1:00 PM–3:00 PM White Papers: Moving from outline to text Writing!
3:00 PM–3:15 PM Break
3:15 PM–4:00 PM Each group develops go-forward plans What must happen next to make standardization happen.
4:00 PM–5:00 PM What’s missing & next steps for standardization How do you want to be engaged going forward?
5:00 PM–5:30 PM Close and Next Steps, Co-Chairs What happens over the next 6, 12, 18 months