tzapzoor/helib

An Implementation of homomorphic encryption

HElib

HElib is a software library that implements homomorphic encryption (HE). Currently available is an implementation of the Brakerski-Gentry-Vaikuntanathan (BGV) scheme, along with many optimizations to make homomorphic evaluation runs faster, focusing mostly on effective use of the Smart-Vercauteren ciphertext packing techniques and the Gentry-Halevi-Smart optimizations. See this report for a description of a few of the algorithms using in this library. Starting December 2014, the library also includes bootstrapping.

At its present state, this library is mostly meant for researchers working on HE and its uses. Also currently it is fairly low-level, and is best thought of as "assembly language for HE". That is, it provides low-level routines (set, add, multiply, shift, etc.), with as much access to optimizations as we can give. Hopefully in time we will be able to provide higher-level routines.

This library is written in C++ and uses the NTL mathematical library (version 10.0.0 or higher). As of March 2015, it also supports multi-threading. HElib is distributed under the terms of the Apache License v2.0. For more information see the GitHub Pages.