US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Approximate homomorphic cryptographic operations" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,383, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Approximate homomorphic cryptographic operations" was invented by Nir Drucker (Zichron Yaakov, Israel) and Hayim Shaul (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for performing homomorphic cryptographic operations. The mechanisms receive a specification of a homomorphic encryption (HE) operation to be performed on workloads comprising one or more input ciphertexts and generate a circuit of HE computations for performing the HE operation. The circuit comprises authentication tag checking logic at one or more in...