A Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme for Real-Time Safe Control

TL;DR

This paper presents a reformulated fully homomorphic encryption scheme implemented on FPGA, enabling real-time control of a double pendulum without decrypting data, thus enhancing secure remote control capabilities.

Contribution

A novel reformulation of Gentry's FHE scheme optimized for FPGA implementation, facilitating real-time control applications with improved efficiency.

Findings

Successfully implemented on FPGA for real-time stabilization

Enables secure remote control without data decryption

Achieves practical real-time performance for control systems

Abstract

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) has made it possible to perform addition and multiplication operations on encrypted data. Using FHE in control thus has the advantage that control effort for a plant can be calculated remotely without ever decrypting the exchanged information. FHE in its current form is however not practically applicable for real-time control as its computational load is very high compared to traditional encryption methods. In this paper a reformulation of the Gentry FHE scheme is proposed and applied on an FPGA to solve this problem. It is shown that the resulting FHE scheme can be implemented for real-time stabilization of an inverted double pendulum using discrete time control.