Georgiana Miruna Roşca
Bitdefender, Romania

Homomorphic encryption (HE) is a special type of encryption that allows computations to be performed directly on encrypted data without having to decrypt it. Using HE, the users can benefit from the expertise of special entities such as banks or hospitals without ever disclosing their private information.

In this talk, I will first give a short introduction into HE and motivate our interest in it. Then, I will discuss its current limitations. I will conclude my talk by presenting some applications of HE that we have investigated at Bitdefender, such as private set intersection or running machine learning models on encrypted data.