Paper 2015/1044
Homomorphic evaluation requires depth
Andrej Bogdanov and Chin Ho Lee
Abstract
We show that homomorphic evaluation of any non-trivial functionality of sufficiently many inputs with respect to any CPA secure homomorphic encryption scheme cannot be implemented by circuits of polynomial size and constant depth, i.e., in the class AC0. In contrast, we observe that there exist ordinary public-key encryption schemes of quasipolynomial security in AC0 assuming noisy parities are exponentially hard to learn. We view this as evidence that homomorphic evaluation is inherently more complex than basic operations in encryption schemes.
Note: The previous version made an unconditional claim about AC^0. We do not know that the claim is false. But this version does not make it.
Metadata
- Available format(s)
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PDF
- Publication info
- A minor revision of an IACR publication in TCC 2016
- Keywords
- complexity of cryptographyhomomorphic encryption
- Contact author(s)
- chlee @ ccs neu edu
- History
- 2016-04-13: revised
- 2015-10-28: received
- See all versions
- Short URL
- https://ia.cr/2015/1044
- License
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CC BY
BibTeX
@misc{cryptoeprint:2015/1044, author = {Andrej Bogdanov and Chin Ho Lee}, title = {Homomorphic evaluation requires depth}, howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2015/1044}, year = {2015}, url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2015/1044} }