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Adaptive Federated Learning with Functional Encryption: A Comparison of Classical and Quantum-safe Options

Published: April 1, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.00563v2

By: Enrico Sorbera , Federica Zanetti , Giacomo Brandi and more

Potential Business Impact:

Protects private data when computers learn together.

Business Areas:
Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence, Data and Analytics, Software

Federated Learning (FL) is a collaborative method for training machine learning models while preserving the confidentiality of the participants' training data. Nevertheless, FL is vulnerable to reconstruction attacks that exploit shared parameters to reveal private training data. In this paper, we address this issue in the cybersecurity domain by applying Multi-Input Functional Encryption (MIFE) to a recent FL implementation for training ML-based network intrusion detection systems. We assess both classical and post-quantum solutions in terms of memory cost and computational overhead in the FL process, highlighting their impact on convergence time.

Page Count
8 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Cryptography and Security