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

Academic Editor: Stefan Katzenbeisser

Copyright © 2007 Caroline Fontaine and Fabien Galand. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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.