HOMOMORPHIC ENCRYPTION: CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY AND OTHER APPLICATIONS (A SURVEY)

Abstract

Homomorphic encryption is a form of encryption which allows specific types of computations to be carried out on cipher text and to obtain an encrypted result which matches the result of operations performed on the plain text. The article presents a basic concept of the homomorphic encryption and various encryption algorithms in accordance with the fundamental properties of the homomorphic encryption. The examples of various principles and properties of homomorphic encryption, some homomorphic algorithms using asymmetric key systems such as RSA, ElGamal, Paillier algorithms as well as various homomorphic encryption schemes are given. Prospects of homomorphic encryption application in the field of secure cloud computing, electronic voting, cipher text searching, encrypted mail filtering, mobile cipher and secure feedback systems are considered.