The HEAT project will develop advanced cryptographic technologies using Fully Homomorphic Encryption to process sensitive information in ecrypted form, without needing to compromise on the privacy and security of the citizens and organizations that provide the input data.
| Start: | January 1, 2015 |
| End: | December 31, 2017 |
Total cost of €4.16 Million (€4.16 Million EU-funded)
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A crypto-calculus platform for the Cloud.
The principle of cloud computing is to allow users to outsource computation resources to the cloud by allowing a remote service to execute, in their name, some procedures on their private data. While many commercial services are growing fast, to this day, all require the client to place total trust in the service regarding the confidentiality of their data. The aim of CRYPTOCOMP is to develop an efficient cloud-based crypto-calculus platform which, using the latest advances in Fully Homomorphic Encryption, would make it impossible for the cloud service to learn anything whatsoever about the user's data, while still executing the procedures as intended.
A french regroupment for post-quantum cryptography.
The RISQ project brings together the french digital security community (academics and industry) in order to prepare the post-quantum revolution. Combining the strong skills of its actors, the RISQ project aims to take part in the development of standards and of new technologies. It also aims to set up processes of migration, so that french industry can be reactive to this technological change. Considering the paramount importance of this project, several major companies decided to get on board even on their own expense.
The HEAT project will develop advanced cryptographic technologies to process sensitive information in encrypted form, without needing to compromise on the privacy and security of the citizens and organizations that provide the input data.
The core technology is based on homomorphic cryptography, which allows to perform computations on encrypted information without decrypting it. The main goal of HEAT is to produce a step change in the efficiency and applicability of this technology.
The HEAT proposal brings together Europe’s leading researchers on homomorphic cryptography (KU Leuven, Belgium (Coordinator), University of Bristol, UK and University of Luxemburg, Luxemburg), with the leading expertise on lattice based cryptanalysis (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), and three industrial partners with existing interests in the field (CryptoExperts, France, NXP Semiconductors, Belgium and Thales UK, UK).
The proposed outputs of HEAT are an open source software library to support applications that wish to use homomorphic cryptography. The results of the HEAT project will be highly beneficial to European industry and academic research since they allow for using homomorphic cryptography to be used by a much wider variety of end developers.
The HEAT project envisions the following outcomes:
The deliverables of HEAT will be available on HEAT website.
Pascal Paillier, Renaud Sirdey.