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Security parameter

Open matlink opened this issue 8 years ago • 1 comments

Does 4 is enough for lambda ? It makes only lambda¹⁰ bits of security, according to the paper. Am I wrong ?

matlink avatar Mar 11 '16 15:03 matlink

Sorry, I didn't see your message.

4 is most certainly not large enough to be secure in a practical setting. Since this implementation is really just for demonstration and learning purposes, I chose a small lambda to make computation tractable. In practice, homomorphic encryption over integers is not tractable for lambda large enough to be secure. The ciphertexts quickly become completely unmanageable.

rinon avatar Sep 30 '16 00:09 rinon