Integrating fully homomorphic encryption to enhance the security of blockchain applications

Abstract

Blockchain has been widely used for secure transactions among untrusted parties, but the current design of blockchain does not provide sufficient privacy and security for the data on the chain, limiting its application in sensitive information scenarios. To address this problem, we propose integrating fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) to enhance the security of blockchain applications, which can extend the application scope of blockchain and improve the privacy and security of blockchain by the features of FHE. Our scheme classifies FHE into those supporting polynomial and non-polynomial operations and introduces the concept of ciphertext computation conversion into Ethereum, enabling conversion between different ciphertext computation types. Moreover, we analyse the security and correctness to explain the feasibility and availability of the scheme. We carry out comparative experiments using different open-source libraries for fully homomorphic encryption and the time performance evaluation of the ciphertext computation conversion under different thread counts. The experiment results demonstrate the efficiency and usability of our scheme.