EURASIP Journal on Information Security 
Volume 2007 (2007), Article ID 13801, 10 pages
doi:10.1155/2007/13801
Review Article

A Survey of Homomorphic Encryption for Nonspecialists

Caroline Fontaine and Fabien Galand

CNRS/IRISA-TEMICS, Campus de Beaulieu, Rennes Cedex 35042, France

Received 30 March 2007; Revised 10 July 2007; Accepted 24 October 2007

Recommended by Stefan Katzenbeisser

Abstract

Processing encrypted signals requires special properties of the underlying encryption scheme. A possible choice is the use of homomorphic encryption. In this paper, we propose a selection of the most important available solutions, discussing their properties and limitations.