{"id":419003,"date":"2017-08-08T14:14:54","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-event&p=419003"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:57:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T18:57:46","slug":"homomorphic-encryption-standardization-workshop","status":"publish","type":"msr-event","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/event\/homomorphic-encryption-standardization-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Homomorphic Encryption Standardization Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n

Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/homomorphicencryption.org\/ (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

\"HomomorphicThis workshop brought together members of the Homomorphic\u00a0Encryption (HE)\u00a0community (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> to spend two days working together toward a plan for standardization.<\/p>\n

Homomorphic encryption schemes which can handle one \u201coperation\u201d have been known for a long time, such as RSA, Paillier, or BGN which can do a little bit more. With the breakthrough work by Gentry in 2009, the community embarked on a new direction, basing \u201cFully\u201d Homomorphic Encryption Schemes on hard lattice problems. Now, 8 years later, we have multiple robust HE libraries available (HElib, SEAL, NFLlib, Palisade), which use schemes such as BGV and FV. With new optimizations and clever encoding techniques, they allow an amazing amount of practical computation to be done on encrypted data. Projects such as CryptoNets have already proved the feasibility of machine learning applications on encrypted data; the iDASH 2015 and 2016 competitions demonstrated computations on encrypted genomic data such as edit distance and string matching.\u00a0Most applications follow the \u201cleveled\u201d approach, where parameters are set to allow the evaluation of limited\u2014but arbitrarily high \u2013 depth circuits, making the computations practical, and avoiding costly bootstrapping operations.\u00a0For that reason, we drop the word \u201cFully\u201d, and simply refer to the area as Homomorphic Encryption (HE).<\/p>\n

This workshop aimed to leverage this progress and to galvanize the community toward a common approach to standardization of Homomorphic Encryption.<\/p>\n

Organizers<\/h2>\n

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Kristin Lauter (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Kim Laine (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Kurt Rohloff,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology<\/p>

Lily Chen,\u00a0National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/p>

Roy Zimmermann (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

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Microsoft<\/h3>\n

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David Carroll,\u00a0Microsoft Azure<\/p>

Melissa Chase (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/p>

Hao Chen (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Ran Gilad-Bachrach (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Ranjit Kumaresan (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

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Kim Laine (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Kristin Lauter (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Satya Lokam (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research India<\/p>

Roy Zimmermann (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research Outreach<\/p>

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Microsoft Interns<\/h3>\n

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Kyoohyung Han, Seoul National University<\/p>

Zhicong Huang, \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL)<\/p>

Amir Jalali, Florida Atlantic University<\/p>

Travis Morrison, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>

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Lily Chen, National Institute of Standards and Technology\u00a0(NIST)<\/p>

Roger Hallman, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific<\/p>

Dustin Moody, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)<\/p>

Heidi Sofia,\u00a0National Institutes of Health (NIH)\/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)<\/p>

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Industry<\/h3>\n

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David Archer,\u00a0Galois<\/p>

Shai Halevi,\u00a0IBM<\/p>

Alex Malozemoff,\u00a0Galois<\/p>

Pascal Paillier,\u00a0Crypto Experts<\/p>

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Brad Malin,\u00a0Vanderbilt University-GenoPri<\/p>

Michael Brenner,\u00a0University of Hannover<\/p>

Jung Hee Cheon,\u00a0Seoul National University<\/p>

Wei Dai,\u00a0Worchester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>

Jintai Ding,\u00a0University of Cincinnati<\/p>

Shafi Goldwasser,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>

Sergey Gorbunov,\u00a0University of Waterloo<\/p>

Jeffrey Hoffstein,\u00a0Brown University<\/p>

Xiaoqian Jiang,\u00a0University of California at San Diego-iDASH<\/p>

Miran Kim,\u00a0University of California at San Diego<\/p>

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Yuriy Polyakov,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology<\/p>

Kurt Rohloff,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology<\/p>

Amit Sahai,\u00a0University of California at Los Angeles<\/p>

Erkay Savas,\u00a0Sabanci University<\/p>

Yongsoo Song,\u00a0Seoul National University<\/p>

Berk Sunar,\u00a0Worchester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>

Vinod Vaikuntanathan,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>

Shuang Wang,\u00a0University of California at San Diego-iDASH<\/p>

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White Papers<\/h2>\n

These white papers were drafted by three working groups at the workshop:<\/p>\n

APIs (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: This white paper discusses the design of API standards for homomorphic encryption.<\/p>\n

Security (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: This white paper discusses the security standards for homomorphic encryption.<\/p>\n

Applications (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0This white paper discusses the motivating applications for homomorphic encryption.<\/p>\n

In the News<\/h2>\n

To Protect Genetic Privacy, Encrypt your DNA (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Wired, August 23, 2017<\/p>\n

Changing the security landscape for entrepreneurs<\/span> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, TechCrunch, August 17, 2017<\/span>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Day 1 \u2013 July 13, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time (PDT)<\/th>\nSession<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\nBreakfast<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\nKickoff, Kristin Lauter<\/td>\nGoals and structure: everyone involved in brainstorming progressing toward writing white papers that consolidate ideas, future research, standardization next steps.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:15 AM\u201310:15 AM<\/td>\nIntro lightning round:<\/strong> What I’m working on and what I\u2019m excited to work on (two minutes\/one slide).<\/td>\nOne PowerPoint slide describing who you are and what you are working on.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:15 AM\u201310:30 AM<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\nPart 1: The State of the Art:<\/strong> A snapshot of the capabilities of today\u2019s tools. 10-15 minutes with time for discussion. Leading into the issues related to workshop objectives.<\/td>\nDemos of what HE can currently do
\n\u2022 SEAL: Kim Laine
\n\u2022 NFLlib: Pascal Pallier
\n\u2022 Palisade: Yuriy Polyakov
\n\u2022 cuHE: Berk Sunar
\n\u2022 Frontend for FHE: Alex Malozemoff
\n\u2022 HElib: Shai Halevi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\nWorking Lunch<\/td>\nLily & Pascal – the path toward standardization; overview of standardization process<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 PM\u20131:30 PM<\/td>\nIntroduction of the three tracks<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Security
\n\u2022 Apps
\n\u2022 API<\/td>\n		Facilitators each spend 10 minutes describing tracks and participants organize into tracks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30 PM\u20132:30 PM<\/td>\nFacilitated Breakout Groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three groups loosely organized around the objectives<\/td>\n

\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track
\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:30 PM\u20132:45 PM<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:45 PM\u20134:30 PM<\/td>\nFacilitated Breakout Groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moving into more specificity for a path toward standardization<\/td>\n

\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track
\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:30 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\nDay 1 wrap up: Groups report back<\/td>\nWhat we saw and heard and a bit about tomorrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00 PM\u20138:00 PM<\/td>\nWine, cheese, dinner<\/td>\nPurple Caf\u00e9 and Wine Bar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Day 2 \u2013 July 14, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time (PDT)<\/th>\nSession<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\nBreakfast<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\nExpectations of the Day, Co-Chair<\/td>\nBy the end of the day, we will have accomplished\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:15 AM\u201310:30 AM<\/td>\nOutlines of a White Paper in groups<\/td>\n\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track
\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\nContinue drafting outlines for White Papers<\/td>\nBreakout groups working together<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\nWorking Lunch<\/td>\nLily and Pascal follow up discussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 PM\u20133:00 PM<\/td>\nWhite Papers: Moving from outline to text<\/td>\nWriting!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:00 PM\u20133:15 PM<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:15 PM\u20134:00 PM<\/td>\nEach group develops go-forward plans<\/td>\nWhat must happen next to make standardization happen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\nWhat\u2019s missing & next steps for standardization<\/td>\nHow do you want to be engaged going forward?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00 PM\u20135:30 PM<\/td>\nClose and Next Steps, Co-Chairs<\/td>\nWhat happens over the next 6, 12, 18 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Website:<\/strong> http:\/\/homomorphicencryption.org\/ (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

\"HomomorphicThis workshop brought together members of the Homomorphic\u00a0Encryption (HE)\u00a0community (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> to spend two days working together toward a plan for standardization.<\/p>\n

Homomorphic encryption schemes which can handle one \u201coperation\u201d have been known for a long time, such as RSA, Paillier, or BGN which can do a little bit more. With the breakthrough work by Gentry in 2009, the community embarked on a new direction, basing \u201cFully\u201d Homomorphic Encryption Schemes on hard lattice problems. Now, 8 years later, we have multiple robust HE libraries available (HElib, SEAL, NFLlib, Palisade), which use schemes such as BGV and FV. With new optimizations and clever encoding techniques, they allow an amazing amount of practical computation to be done on encrypted data. Projects such as CryptoNets have already proved the feasibility of machine learning applications on encrypted data; the iDASH 2015 and 2016 competitions demonstrated computations on encrypted genomic data such as edit distance and string matching.\u00a0Most applications follow the \u201cleveled\u201d approach, where parameters are set to allow the evaluation of limited\u2014but arbitrarily high \u2013 depth circuits, making the computations practical, and avoiding costly bootstrapping operations.\u00a0For that reason, we drop the word \u201cFully\u201d, and simply refer to the area as Homomorphic Encryption (HE).<\/p>\n

This workshop aimed to leverage this progress and to galvanize the community toward a common approach to standardization of Homomorphic Encryption.<\/p>\n

Organizers<\/h2>\n

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Kristin Lauter (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Kim Laine (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Kurt Rohloff,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology<\/p>

Lily Chen,\u00a0National Institute of Standards and Technology<\/p>

Roy Zimmermann (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

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Microsoft<\/h3>\n

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David Carroll,\u00a0Microsoft Azure<\/p>

Melissa Chase (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft Research<\/p>

Hao Chen (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Ran Gilad-Bachrach (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Ranjit Kumaresan (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

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Kim Laine (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Kristin Lauter (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research<\/p>

Satya Lokam (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research India<\/p>

Roy Zimmermann (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Microsoft Research Outreach<\/p>

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Kyoohyung Han, Seoul National University<\/p>

Zhicong Huang, \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL)<\/p>

Amir Jalali, Florida Atlantic University<\/p>

Travis Morrison, Pennsylvania State University<\/p>

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Lily Chen, National Institute of Standards and Technology\u00a0(NIST)<\/p>

Roger Hallman, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific<\/p>

Dustin Moody, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)<\/p>

Heidi Sofia,\u00a0National Institutes of Health (NIH)\/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)<\/p>

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Industry<\/h3>\n

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David Archer,\u00a0Galois<\/p>

Shai Halevi,\u00a0IBM<\/p>

Alex Malozemoff,\u00a0Galois<\/p>

Pascal Paillier,\u00a0Crypto Experts<\/p>

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Brad Malin,\u00a0Vanderbilt University-GenoPri<\/p>

Michael Brenner,\u00a0University of Hannover<\/p>

Jung Hee Cheon,\u00a0Seoul National University<\/p>

Wei Dai,\u00a0Worchester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>

Jintai Ding,\u00a0University of Cincinnati<\/p>

Shafi Goldwasser,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>

Sergey Gorbunov,\u00a0University of Waterloo<\/p>

Jeffrey Hoffstein,\u00a0Brown University<\/p>

Xiaoqian Jiang,\u00a0University of California at San Diego-iDASH<\/p>

Miran Kim,\u00a0University of California at San Diego<\/p>

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Yuriy Polyakov,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology<\/p>

Kurt Rohloff,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology<\/p>

Amit Sahai,\u00a0University of California at Los Angeles<\/p>

Erkay Savas,\u00a0Sabanci University<\/p>

Yongsoo Song,\u00a0Seoul National University<\/p>

Berk Sunar,\u00a0Worchester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>

Vinod Vaikuntanathan,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>

Shuang Wang,\u00a0University of California at San Diego-iDASH<\/p>

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White Papers<\/h2>\n

These white papers were drafted by three working groups at the workshop:<\/p>\n

APIs (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: This white paper discusses the design of API standards for homomorphic encryption.<\/p>\n

Security (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: This white paper discusses the security standards for homomorphic encryption.<\/p>\n

Applications (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>:\u00a0This white paper discusses the motivating applications for homomorphic encryption.<\/p>\n

In the News<\/h2>\n

To Protect Genetic Privacy, Encrypt your DNA (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, Wired, August 23, 2017<\/p>\n

Changing the security landscape for entrepreneurs<\/span> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, TechCrunch, August 17, 2017<\/span>Opens in a new tab<\/span><\/p>\n

Day 1 \u2013 July 13, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time (PDT)<\/th>\nSession<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\nBreakfast<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\nKickoff, Kristin Lauter<\/td>\nGoals and structure: everyone involved in brainstorming progressing toward writing white papers that consolidate ideas, future research, standardization next steps.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:15 AM\u201310:15 AM<\/td>\nIntro lightning round:<\/strong> What I’m working on and what I\u2019m excited to work on (two minutes\/one slide).<\/td>\nOne PowerPoint slide describing who you are and what you are working on.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:15 AM\u201310:30 AM<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\nPart 1: The State of the Art:<\/strong> A snapshot of the capabilities of today\u2019s tools. 10-15 minutes with time for discussion. Leading into the issues related to workshop objectives.<\/td>\nDemos of what HE can currently do
\n\u2022 SEAL: Kim Laine
\n\u2022 NFLlib: Pascal Pallier
\n\u2022 Palisade: Yuriy Polyakov
\n\u2022 cuHE: Berk Sunar
\n\u2022 Frontend for FHE: Alex Malozemoff
\n\u2022 HElib: Shai Halevi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\nWorking Lunch<\/td>\nLily & Pascal – the path toward standardization; overview of standardization process<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 PM\u20131:30 PM<\/td>\nIntroduction of the three tracks<\/strong>
\n\u2022 Security
\n\u2022 Apps
\n\u2022 API<\/td>\n		Facilitators each spend 10 minutes describing tracks and participants organize into tracks<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:30 PM\u20132:30 PM<\/td>\nFacilitated Breakout Groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Three groups loosely organized around the objectives<\/td>\n

\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track
\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:30 PM\u20132:45 PM<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2:45 PM\u20134:30 PM<\/td>\nFacilitated Breakout Groups:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moving into more specificity for a path toward standardization<\/td>\n

\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track
\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:30 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\nDay 1 wrap up: Groups report back<\/td>\nWhat we saw and heard and a bit about tomorrow<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00 PM\u20138:00 PM<\/td>\nWine, cheese, dinner<\/td>\nPurple Caf\u00e9 and Wine Bar<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Day 2 \u2013 July 14, 2017<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Time (PDT)<\/th>\nSession<\/th>\nDescription<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\nBreakfast<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\nExpectations of the Day, Co-Chair<\/td>\nBy the end of the day, we will have accomplished\u2026<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9:15 AM\u201310:30 AM<\/td>\nOutlines of a White Paper in groups<\/td>\n\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track
\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track
\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10:45 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\nContinue drafting outlines for White Papers<\/td>\nBreakout groups working together<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\nWorking Lunch<\/td>\nLily and Pascal follow up discussion<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1:00 PM\u20133:00 PM<\/td>\nWhite Papers: Moving from outline to text<\/td>\nWriting!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:00 PM\u20133:15 PM<\/td>\nBreak<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:15 PM\u20134:00 PM<\/td>\nEach group develops go-forward plans<\/td>\nWhat must happen next to make standardization happen.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:00 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\nWhat\u2019s missing & next steps for standardization<\/td>\nHow do you want to be engaged going forward?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:00 PM\u20135:30 PM<\/td>\nClose and Next Steps, Co-Chairs<\/td>\nWhat happens over the next 6, 12, 18 months<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Organizers<\/h2>\r\n[row][column class=\"m-col-16-24\"]\r\n\r\nKristin Lauter<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nKim Laine<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nKurt Rohloff,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology\r\n\r\nLily Chen,\u00a0National Institute of Standards and Technology\r\n\r\nRoy Zimmermann<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\n[\/column] [column class=\"m-col-8-24\"] [\/column][\/row]\r\n

Attendees<\/h2>\r\n

Microsoft<\/h3>\r\n[row][column class=\"m-col-12-24\"]\r\n\r\nDavid Carroll,\u00a0Microsoft Azure\r\n\r\nMelissa Chase<\/a>,\u00a0Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nHao Chen<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nRan Gilad-Bachrach<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nRanjit Kumaresan<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\n[\/column] [column class=\"m-col-12-24\"]\r\n\r\nKim Laine<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nKristin Lauter<\/a>, Microsoft Research\r\n\r\nSatya Lokam<\/a>, Microsoft Research India\r\n\r\nRoy Zimmermann<\/a>, Microsoft Research Outreach\r\n\r\n[\/column][\/row]\r\n

Microsoft Interns<\/h3>\r\n[row][column class=\"m-col-16-24\"]\r\n\r\nKyoohyung Han, Seoul National University\r\n\r\nZhicong Huang, \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne (EPFL)\r\n\r\nAmir Jalali, Florida Atlantic University\r\n\r\nTravis Morrison, Pennsylvania State University\r\n\r\n[\/column] [column class=\"m-col-8-24\"] [\/column][\/row]\r\n

Government Agencies<\/h3>\r\n[row][column class=\"m-col-16-24\"]\r\n\r\nLily Chen, National Institute of Standards and Technology\u00a0(NIST)\r\n\r\nRoger Hallman, SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific\r\n\r\nDustin Moody, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)\r\n\r\nHeidi Sofia,\u00a0National Institutes of Health (NIH)\/National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)\r\n\r\n[\/column] [column class=\"m-col-8-24\"] [\/column][\/row]\r\n

Industry<\/h3>\r\n[row][column class=\"m-col-16-24\"]\r\n\r\nDavid Archer,\u00a0Galois\r\n\r\nShai Halevi,\u00a0IBM\r\n\r\nAlex Malozemoff,\u00a0Galois\r\n\r\nPascal Paillier,\u00a0Crypto Experts\r\n\r\n[\/column] [column class=\"m-col-8-24\"] [\/column][\/row]\r\n

Academia<\/h3>\r\n[row][column class=\"m-col-12-24\"]\r\n\r\nBrad Malin,\u00a0Vanderbilt University-GenoPri\r\n\r\nMichael Brenner,\u00a0University of Hannover\r\n\r\nJung Hee Cheon,\u00a0Seoul National University\r\n\r\nWei Dai,\u00a0Worchester Polytechnic Institute\r\n\r\nJintai Ding,\u00a0University of Cincinnati\r\n\r\nShafi Goldwasser,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology\r\n\r\nSergey Gorbunov,\u00a0University of Waterloo\r\n\r\nJeffrey Hoffstein,\u00a0Brown University\r\n\r\nXiaoqian Jiang,\u00a0University of California at San Diego-iDASH\r\n\r\nMiran Kim,\u00a0University of California at San Diego\r\n\r\n[\/column] [column class=\"m-col-12-24\"]\r\n\r\nYuriy Polyakov,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology\r\n\r\nKurt Rohloff,\u00a0New Jersey Institute of Technology\r\n\r\nAmit Sahai,\u00a0University of California at Los Angeles\r\n\r\nErkay Savas,\u00a0Sabanci University\r\n\r\nYongsoo Song,\u00a0Seoul National University\r\n\r\nBerk Sunar,\u00a0Worchester Polytechnic Institute\r\n\r\nVinod Vaikuntanathan,\u00a0Massachusetts Institute of Technology\r\n\r\nShuang Wang,\u00a0University of California at San Diego-iDASH\r\n\r\n[\/column][\/row]\r\n

White Papers<\/h2>\r\nThese white papers were drafted by three working groups at the workshop:\r\n\r\nAPIs<\/a>: This white paper discusses the design of API standards for homomorphic encryption.\r\n\r\nSecurity<\/a>: This white paper discusses the security standards for homomorphic encryption.\r\n\r\nApplications<\/a>:\u00a0This white paper discusses the motivating applications for homomorphic encryption.\r\n

In the News<\/h2>\r\nTo Protect Genetic Privacy, Encrypt your DNA<\/a>, Wired, August 23, 2017\r\n\r\nChanging the security landscape for entrepreneurs<\/span><\/a>, TechCrunch, August 17, 2017<\/span>"},{"id":1,"name":"Agenda","content":"

Day 1 \u2013 July 13, 2017<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\r\nBreakfast<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\r\nKickoff, Kristin Lauter<\/td>\r\nGoals and structure: everyone involved in brainstorming progressing toward writing white papers that consolidate ideas, future research, standardization next steps.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:15 AM\u201310:15 AM<\/td>\r\nIntro lightning round:<\/strong> What I'm working on and what I\u2019m excited to work on (two minutes\/one slide).<\/td>\r\nOne PowerPoint slide describing who you are and what you are working on.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:15 AM\u201310:30 AM<\/td>\r\nBreak<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:30 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\r\nPart 1: The State of the Art:<\/strong> A snapshot of the capabilities of today\u2019s tools. 10-15 minutes with time for discussion. Leading into the issues related to workshop objectives.<\/td>\r\nDemos of what HE can currently do\r\n\u2022 SEAL: Kim Laine\r\n\u2022 NFLlib: Pascal Pallier\r\n\u2022 Palisade: Yuriy Polyakov\r\n\u2022 cuHE: Berk Sunar\r\n\u2022 Frontend for FHE: Alex Malozemoff\r\n\u2022 HElib: Shai Halevi<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\r\nWorking Lunch<\/td>\r\nLily & Pascal - the path toward standardization; overview of standardization process<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1:00 PM\u20131:30 PM<\/td>\r\nIntroduction of the three tracks<\/strong>\r\n\u2022 Security\r\n\u2022 Apps\r\n\u2022 API<\/td>\r\nFacilitators each spend 10 minutes describing tracks and participants organize into tracks<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1:30 PM\u20132:30 PM<\/td>\r\nFacilitated Breakout Groups:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThree groups loosely organized around the objectives<\/td>\r\n\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track\r\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track\r\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2:30 PM\u20132:45 PM<\/td>\r\nBreak<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
2:45 PM\u20134:30 PM<\/td>\r\nFacilitated Breakout Groups:<\/strong>\r\n\r\nMoving into more specificity for a path toward standardization<\/td>\r\n\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track\r\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track\r\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
4:30 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\r\nDay 1 wrap up: Groups report back<\/td>\r\nWhat we saw and heard and a bit about tomorrow<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
5:00 PM\u20138:00 PM<\/td>\r\nWine, cheese, dinner<\/td>\r\nPurple Caf\u00e9 and Wine Bar<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n

Day 2 \u2013 July 14, 2017<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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8:30 AM\u20139:00 AM<\/td>\r\nBreakfast<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:00 AM\u20139:15 AM<\/td>\r\nExpectations of the Day, Co-Chair<\/td>\r\nBy the end of the day, we will have accomplished\u2026<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
9:15 AM\u201310:30 AM<\/td>\r\nOutlines of a White Paper in groups<\/td>\r\n\u2022 Kristin and Vinod: Security track\r\n\u2022 Rani and Jung Hee: Apps track\r\n\u2022 Kurt and Kim: API track<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
10:45 AM\u201312:00 PM<\/td>\r\nContinue drafting outlines for White Papers<\/td>\r\nBreakout groups working together<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
12:00 PM\u20131:00 PM<\/td>\r\nWorking Lunch<\/td>\r\nLily and Pascal follow up discussion<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
1:00 PM\u20133:00 PM<\/td>\r\nWhite Papers: Moving from outline to text<\/td>\r\nWriting!<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
3:00 PM\u20133:15 PM<\/td>\r\nBreak<\/td>\r\n<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
3:15 PM\u20134:00 PM<\/td>\r\nEach group develops go-forward plans<\/td>\r\nWhat must happen next to make standardization happen.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
4:00 PM\u20135:00 PM<\/td>\r\nWhat\u2019s missing & next steps for standardization<\/td>\r\nHow do you want to be engaged going forward?<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
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