Yongsoo Song
Seoul National University · Computer Science
About the Lab
Professor Yongsoo Song's research lab specializes in privacy-preserving computing and secure systems, with a focus on homomorphic encryption, secure machine learning, and cryptography for safety-critical cyber-physical systems. The lab develops practical homomorphic encryption schemes to enable secure outsourcing of computations—particularly matrix operations and logistic regression—on sensitive data without decryption. It also investigates the application of fully homomorphic encryption in real-time, mission-critical environments such as networked vehicles and railway control systems to protect data confidentiality and system integrity. The lab emphasizes both theoretical advancements and real-world deployment, including testbed implementations for secure communication infrastructures like LTE-R in transportation networks.
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15Homomorphic Encryption (HE) is a powerful cryptographic primitive to address privacy and security issues in outsourcing computation on sensitive data to an untrusted computation environment. Comparing to secure Multi-Party Computation (MPC), HE has advantages in supporting non-interactive operations and saving on communication costs. However, it has not come up with an optimal solution for modern learning frameworks, partially due to a lack of efficient matrix computation mechanisms. In this wor
We present the first homomorphically encrypted logistic regression outsourcing model based on the critical observation that the precision loss of classification models is sufficiently small so that the decision plan stays still.
We present a practical solution for outsourcing analysis tools such as logistic regression analysis while preserving the data confidentiality.
: In order to enhance security of cyber-physical systems, it is important to protect the signals from sensors to the controller, and from the controller to the actuator, because the attackers often steal and compromise those signals. One immediate solution could be encrypting the signals, but in order to perform computation in the controller, they should be decrypted before computation and encrypted again after computation. For this, the controller keeps the secret key, which in turn increases v
Controlling or accessing remotely has become a prevalent form of operating numerous types of platforms and infrastructure. An exploding number of vehicles such as drones or cars, in particular, are being controlled wirelessly or connected through networks. This has brought unanimous concern that today's networked vehicle systems are vulnerable to attacks and the results could be fatal. Unfortunately, in contrast to active investigation on the security of the vehicles themselves, sensors, or comm
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is one of promising cryptographic candidates resolving privacy issues in machine learning on sensitive data such as biomedical data and financial data. However, HE-based solutions commonly suffer from relatively high computational costs due to a large number of iterations in the optimization algorithms such as gradient descent (GD) for the learning phase. In this paper, we propose a new method called ensemble GD for logistic regression, a commonly used machine learnin
Machine learning applications are intensively utilized in various science fields, and increasingly the biomedical and healthcare sector. Applying predictive modeling to biomedical data introduces privacy and security concerns requiring additional protection to prevent accidental disclosure or leakage of sensitive patient information. Significant advancements in secure computing methods have emerged in recent years, however, many of which require substantial computational and/or communication ove
Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) is a cryptographic primitive that allows performing arbitrary operations on encrypted data. Since the conception of the idea in [RAD78], it has been considered a holy grail of cryptography. After the first construction in 2009 [Gen09], it has evolved to become a practical primitive with strong security guarantees. Most modern constructions are based on well-known lattice problems such as Learning With Errors (LWE). Besides its academic appeal, in recent years F
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