An Unbounded Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme Based on Ideal Lattices
and Chinese Remainder Theorem
Abstract
We propose an unbounded fully homomorphic encryption scheme, i.e. a
scheme that allows one to compute on encrypted data for any desired
functions without needing to decrypt the data or knowing the decryption
keys. This is a rational solution to an old problem proposed by Rivest,
Adleman, and Dertouzos \cite{32} in 1978, and to some
new problems appeared in Peikert \cite{28} as open
questions 10 and open questions 11 a few years ago.
Our scheme is completely different from the breakthrough work
\cite{14,15} of Gentry in 2009. Gentry’s bootstrapping
technique constructs a fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) scheme from a
somewhat homomorphic one that is powerful enough to evaluate its own
decryption function. To date, it remains the only known way of obtaining
unbounded FHE. Our construction of unbounded FHE scheme is
straightforward and noise-free that can handle unbounded homomorphic
computation on any refreshed ciphertexts without bootstrapping
transformation technique.