Alexander Viand

Making FHE accessible @Intel Labs. PhD from @ETH

Trying to make secure computation (FHE, MPC) more accessible to non-experts through new tools & abstractions.

[Jeremy Kun ([email protected]) @jeremyjkun]

HEIR talk at https://t.co/HpI1C89x4Y

https://t.co/EoIhLgFAKn

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@aloksingh Awesome! It's a small (digital) world! Here's a link to the lean-mlir thing I mentioned: https://t.co/8DvHSzk2KE

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Apple's corecrypto library (scroll way down on https://t.co/x6O83rZmJo) contains both ccbfv (BFV implementation) and cche (BGV/BFV). Does anyone have any idea what these might be used for? (or why there's two different BFV implementations?)

[shannon @shannon_veitch]

Stick around on Friday for the *very last talk* of #HotPETs🍦where we promise some hot (🌶️🌶️🌶️) takes on PETs design and real-world privacy incidents

(with Lena Csomor, @AlexanderViand, @anwarhit, @bkacsmar)

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@attache_travel What are things that one should do/book/reserve ahead of time? E.g., prebooking to skip the queue at <attraction>, following an account announcing pop-up art events, etc

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Check out the slides and python notebooks here: https://t.co/W4Oi5ZbXEi

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Great Introduction to HELayers (tensor tiling for FHE) by Hayim Shaul from @IBMResearch today on the last day of @acm_ccs in LA!

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@jeremyjkun In the area of FHE specifically, there's at least @zama, https://t.co/Zo3ojbtg5O, https://t.co/kdwAXohEli and myself using MLIR and defining custom IRs.

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@ElaineRShi @IEEESSP @AndrewCMyers This sounds great! I tried to register (i.e., filled out the form) last week but never heard anything back :(
Did I make it in time? Also pinging @AndrewCMyers

[IEEE S&P @IEEESSP]

Announcement:
PL meets crypto workshop co-located with IEEE S&P organized by @ElaineRShi and @AndrewCMyers will be held on Sunday, May 22 on SRI campus in Menlo Park, CA.

Many amazing speakers: https://t.co/sKtSWSvN5R

RSVP via https://t.co/tHzJ51fWcU

First come, first serve

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@zornsllama Also: vermachen (to bequeath), aufmachen (to open), zumachen (to close), anmachen (to turn on), ausmachen (to close), zurechtmachen (to fix up), and probably even more

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@zornsllama In "correct" German, it probably should: https://t.co/BF2pbLCstk but it's not a very frequent thing. The "Greetings from the n of us" is probably the only case where it's expected. The Genitiv is pretty uncommon, I'd use "von zwei X" instead of "zweier X"

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@zornsllama I don't know what grammar thing is happening there, but there's *something* happening to numbers in some car names: "BMW 1er/3er (einser/dreier)" which are the 1-series and 3-series in English, afaik

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

If you want to get an idea what the DARPA DPRIVE program on FHE accelerators is all about, this paper is a great introduction to the power (and challenges!) of dedicated HE accelerators: https://t.co/hZiMwgO32c

[Boaz Barak @boazbaraktcs]

Together with efficiency improvements, FHE also became much simpler. In Spring 2010 FHE was "hot of the press" but I couldn't help myself and tortured my COS 433 students with 4 dense lectures https://t.co/bCkrJJ7PJE

These days it fits nicely in two https://t.co/IS5RPPzXcU

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Great(?) to see FHE make an appearance at CFAIL!

[CFAIL @cfaiil]

Accepted papers for CFAIL 2021 now listed at https://t.co/Ead68tnlA0

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

@TedOnPrivacy @_shruthig Really cool to see this! If you're interested, I'd love to have a chat at some point about the project! For example, XLS seems to be pretty hardware focussed - any thoughts on what it would take to extend it to arithmetic circuits (BFV/BGV/CKKS)?

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Really cool to see Google get in on FHE and especially FHE compilers! My "update SoK benchmark repo" list just got another item added to it✨

[Ted @TedOnPrivacy]

Big news today! 🚨 We're releasing a first-of-its-kind transpiler to make it radically easier to use 🔐 fully homomorphic encryption🔐!

Put regular C++ code in, get FHE-ready C++ code out. Magic ✨

Check our our code! Or keep reading for more info 😀
https://t.co/bqt1CutsAc

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Really excited to talk about the challenges of #FHE development and how the current ecosystem of tools & compilers is addressing/trying to address them :)
Thanks for inviting me @randhindi!

[Zama @zama]

The next @fhe_org meetup will be on May 20th. @AlexanderViand will be talking about #FHE tools and compilers. Join us if you are a developer interested in protecting your user data with #cryptography! https://t.co/vl9UIQG4uf

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Finally, we give concrete tool recommendations and outline future directions for FHE compiler development.
Check out our repo with detailed tool descriptions, our example applications, and readmes & ready-to-go docker images for the tools we explored https://t.co/1LI0dQfHTO 5/5

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

Excited to share our upcoming @IEEESSP SoK paper on Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compilers, i.e. tools that help lower barriers of entry in FHE for non-expert developers. https://t.co/WfkKvJXOB8
Joint work with @pjattke @anwarhit 1/n

[Alexander Viand @AlexanderViand]

We highlight where barriers to entry have been successfully lowered and where they still remain using different case study applications (medical, statistics, ML) representing common aspects of FHE applications.
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