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A Guide to Fully Homomorphic Encryption

@article{Armknecht2015AGT,
  title={A Guide to Fully Homomorphic Encryption},
  author={Frederik Armknecht and Colin Boyd and Christopher Carr and Kristian Gj{\o}steen and Angela J{\"a}schke and Christian A. Reuter and Martin Strand},
  journal={IACR Cryptol. ePrint Arch.},
  year={2015},
  volume={2015},
  pages={1192}
}
Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) has been dubbed the holy grail of cryptography, an elusive goal which could solve the IT world’s problems of security and trust. Research in the area exploded after 2009 when Craig Gentry showed that FHE can be realised in principle. Since that time considerable progress has been made in finding more practical and more efficient solutions. Whilst research quickly developed, terminology and concepts became diverse and confusing so that today it can be difficult… 
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