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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

On Extension of Evaluation Algorithms in Keyed-Homomorphic Encryption

Hirotomo SHINOKI, Koji NUIDA

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Homomorphic encryption (HE) is public key encryption that enables computation over ciphertexts without decrypting them. To overcome an issue that HE cannot achieve IND-CCA2 security, the notion of keyed-homomorphic encryption (KH-PKE) was introduced (Emura et al., PKC 2013), which has a separate homomorphic evaluation key and can achieve stronger security named KH-CCA security. The contributions of this paper are twofold. First, recall that the syntax of KH-PKE assumes that homomorphic evaluation is performed for single operations, and KH-CCA security was formulated based on this syntax. Consequently, if the homomorphic evaluation algorithm is enhanced in a way of gathering up sequential operations as a single evaluation, then it is not obvious whether or not KH-CCA security is preserved. In this paper, we show that KH-CCA security is in general not preserved under such modification, while KH-CCA security is preserved when the original scheme additionally satisfies circuit privacy. Secondly, Catalano and Fiore (ACM CCS 2015) proposed a conversion method from linearly HE schemes into two-level HE schemes, the latter admitting addition and a single multiplication for ciphertexts. In this paper, we extend the conversion to the case of linearly KH-PKE schemes to obtain two-level KH-PKE schemes. Moreover, based on the generalized version of Catalano-Fiore conversion, we also construct a similar conversion from d-level KH-PKE schemes into 2d-level KH-PKE schemes.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E107-A No.3 pp.218-233
Publication Date
2024/03/01
Publicized
2023/06/27
Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1587/transfun.2023CIP0007
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Cryptography and Information Security)
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Hirotomo SHINOKI
  Hitachi, Ltd.
Koji NUIDA
  Kyushu University,National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

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