TUM COD and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) have been awarded the PQ-Prime (Post-Quantum Privacy by Homomorphic Encryption) project, which is dedicated to advancing encrypted computing. The project is part of the Cyberagentur’s research initiative on secure and efficient cryptography, and is led by the PIs Prof. Antonia Wachter-Zeh (TUM COD) and Dr. Hannes Bartz (DLR).

PQ-Prime focuses on homomorphic encryption, a technique that allows computations on encrypted data without decryption, enhancing data security and privacy. Using homomorphic encryption, the project aims for achieving post-quantum privacy in private information retrieval/private set intersection, data analytics, and machine learning. The project team approaches this challenge from two directions: (1) improving and specializing lattice-based homomorphic encryption schemes and (2) developing homomorphic encryption code-based schemes. This project is planned to be conducted during four years with three scientific employees at TUM COD and one at DLR.

Press release Cyberagentur: https://www.cyberagentur.de/presse/forschungsinitiative-fuer-sichere-und-effiziente-kryptographie/
Project website: https://www.ce.cit.tum.de/lnt/forschung/professur-fuer-coding-and-cryptography/pq-prime/