Evervault Papers
Crypto means cryptography
The most important cryptography papers spanning the past, present, and future of cryptosystems & cryptology.
On the (Im)possibility of Obfuscating Programs
Computer Systems Established, Maintained and Trusted by Mutually Suspicious Groups
A Digital Signature Based on a Conventional Encryption Function
The Knowledge Complexity of Interactive Proof-Systems
Minimal Key Lengths for Symmetric Ciphers to Provide Adequate Commercial Security
CryptDB: Protecting Confidentiality with Encrypted Query Processing
Protocols for Secure Computations
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
A fully homomorphic encryption scheme
A fully homomorphic encryption scheme
Craig Gentry — Published September 2009
In A fully homomorphic encryption scheme, Gentry provides a plausible candidate construction of a fully homomorphic (FHE) scheme, answering the problem posed in 1978 by Rivest, Adleman, and Dertouzos in On Data Banks and Privacy Homomorphisms.
A FHE cryptosystem is one that is homomorphic under both addition and multiplication and yet still secure. FHE makes it possible to perform arbitrary computations (mathematical operations like sum or product as well as more complicated operations) on encrypted data while it remains encrypted — and without needing a secret key.
To put everything online “in the cloud,” unencrypted, is to risk an Orwellian future.” — Craig Gentry
Although FHE is not yet practical for widespread implementation, Gentry’s breakthrough has enormous implications for making cloud computing more secure and compatible with the data privacy for individuals.
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On Data Banks and Privacy Homomorphisms
A fast quantum mechanical algorithm for database search
Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Prime Factorization and Discrete Logarithms on a Quantum Computer
Use of Elliptic Curves in Cryptography
Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems
A Method for Obtaining Digital Signatures and Public Key Cryptosystems
New Directions in Cryptography
Cramming more components onto integrated circuits
A Mathematical Theory of Cryptography
