WAHC - TODAY!

[Homomorphic Encryption]

Hello:

As a reminder, our community's primary academic workshop dedicated to applied homomorphic encryption (WAHC) will be held TODAY, starting in approx. 1.5 hours. Nov. 15, 2021 virtually, but (spiritually) based in Seoul, Korea (https://homomorphicencryption.org/workshops/wahc21/).

WAHC is a CCS workshop again this year.  Registration is through CCS: https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2021/registration.html

The agenda and list of accepted papers is below.

We are starting at:

• Korea Time: 7:30am (Nov. 15)
• Germany Time: 11:30pm (Nov. 14)
• UK Time: 10:30pm (Nov. 14)
• US-Eastern Time: 5:30pm (Nov. 14)
• US-Pacific Time: 2:30pm (Nov. 14)

We're all looking forward to seeing you in London!

Thanks,
WAHC co-chairs,
-Michael, Rachel and Kurt

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INVITED TALK

• FHE Ecosystem Evolution and Standardization: A Retrospection, A Look Ahead, Rosario Cammarota (Intel)

ACCEPTED PAPERS

• Integer Functions Suitable for Homomorphic Encryption over Finite Fields. Ilia Iliashenko (imec-COSIC, KU Leuven); Christophe Nègre (DALI, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia; LIRMM Univ Montpellier); Vincent Zucca (DALI, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia; LIRMM Univ Montpellier).
• Bootstrapping in FHEW-like Cryptosystems. Daniele Micciancio (Duality Technologies); Yuriy Polyakov (Duality Technologies).
• Fast Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation from Ring Learning with Errors. Leo de Castro (MIT); Chiraag Juvekar (Analog Devices); Vinod Vaikuntanathan (MIT).
• EVA Improved: Compiler and Extension Library for CKKS. Sangeeta Chowdhary (Rutgers University); Kim Laine (Microsoft Research); Olli Saarikivi (Microsoft Research); Wei Dai (Microsoft Research).

ACCEPTED DEMOS

• DEMO: Pyfhel: PYthon For Homomorphic Encryption Libraries Alberto Ibarrondo (IDEMIA & EURECOM); Alexander Viand (ETH Zurich).
• DEMO: Intel HEXL: Accelerating Homomorphic Encryption with Intel AVX512-IFMA52. Fabian Boemer (Intel Corporation); Sejun Kim (Intel Corporation); Gelila Seifu (Intel Corporation); Fillipe D.M. de Souza (Intel Corporation); Vinodh Gopal (Intel Corporation).
• DEMO: Towards Better Standard Cell Library: Optimizing Compound Logic Gates for TFHE. Kotaro Matsuoka (Kyoto University); Yusuke Hoshizuki (AXELL CORPORATION); Takashi Sato (Kyoto University); Song Bian (Kyoto University).

Session	US Pacific Time (Starting afternoon of Nov. 14th)	US Eastern Time (Starting evening of Nov. 14th)	UK Time (Starting late night of Nov. 14th)	Germany Time (Starting before midnight Nov. 14th/15th)	South Korea Time (Starting morning of Nov. 15th)	Paper Title
Intro	2:30pm	5:30pm	10:30pm	11:30pm	7:30am
Paper 1	2:40pm	5:40pm	10:40pm	11:40pm	7:40am	Integer Functions Suitable for Homomorphic Encryption over Finite Fields
Paper 2	3:05pm	6:05pm	11:05pm	0:05am	8:05am	EVA Improved: Compiler and Extension Library for CKKS
Brief Coffee Break	3:30pm	6:30pm	11:30pm	0:30am	8:30am
Invited Talk	3:40pm	6:40pm	11:40pm	0:40am	8:40am	FHE Ecosystem Evolution and Standardization: A Retrospection, A Look Ahead
Paper 3	4:40pm	7:40pm	0:40am	1:40am	9:40am	Bootstrapping in FHEW-like Cryptosystems
Paper 4	5:05pm	8:05pm	1:05am	2:05am	10:05am	Fast Vector Oblivious Linear Evaluation from Ring Learning with Errors
“Lunch” Break	5:30pm	8:30pm	1:30am	2:30am	10:30am
Demo 1	6:30pm	9:30pm	2:30am	3:30am	11:40am	Pyfhel: PYthon For Homomorphic Encryption Libraries
Demo 2	6:55pm	9:55pm	2:55am	3:55am	11:55am	Intel HEXL: Accelerating Homomorphic Encryption with Intel AVX512-IFMA52
Demo 3	7:20pm	10:20pm	3:20am	4:20am	12:20pm	Towards Better Standard Cell Library: Optimizing Compound Logic Gates for TFHE
Closing Remarks	7:45pm	10:45pm	3:45am	4:45am	12:45pm