Basics of Homomorphic Encryption

About this course

Welcome to the "Basics of Homomorphic Encryption" course. In today's interconnected world, where data is the lifeblood of innovation, protecting sensitive information while still enabling powerful computations has become a paramount challenge. Homomorphic Encryption emerges as a groundbreaking solution to this challenge, opening new possibilities for privacy-preserving data processing and secure outsourcing of computations.Homomorphic Encryption is a very complex topic involving complex mathematics and technical concepts. This course tries to explain this complex subject in simple language for a broader audience, especially for business-facing leaders. Apart from discussing the basics of cryptography and Homomorphic Encryption, the course delves primarily into the use cases. We first discuss the basic use cases - Privacy-Preserving Data Processing and Outsourced Computation. Later we delve into the hybrid use cases - Privacy Preserving Smart Contracts, Private On-Chain Transactions, use of Homomorphic Encryption in SMPC, and use of Homomorphic Encryption in Machine Learning. Now, this course primarily deals with what kind of problems Homomorphic Encryption is and can solve. If you are looking for a course that can help you implement Homomorphic Encryption with coding examples, this is probably not a good match. If you are more theoretically inclined, please refer to the papers attached to the lectures.All the best.