MATCHA: A Fast and Energy-Efficient Accelerator for Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus

Abstract

Fully Homomorphic Encryption over the Torus (TFHE) allows arbitrary computations to happen directly on ciphertexts using homomorphic logic gates. However, each TFHE gate on state-of-theart hardware platforms such as GPUs and FPGAs is extremely slow (> 0.2𝑚𝑠). Moreover, even the latest FPGA-based TFHE accelerator cannot achieve high energy efficiency, since it frequently invokes expensive double-precision floating point FFT and IFFT kernels. In this paper, we propose a fast and energy-efficient accelerator, MATCHA, to process TFHE gates. MATCHA supports aggressive bootstrapping key unrolling to accelerate TFHE gates without decryption errors by approximate multiplication-less integer FFTs and IFFTs, and a pipelined datapath. Compared to prior accelerators, MATCHA improves the TFHE gate processing throughput by 2.3×, and the throughput per Watt by 6.3×. CCS Concepts• Hardware → Application-specific VLSI designs; • Security and privacy → Cryptography.