3 Homomorphic Encryption Trends For 2025
ITProToday, Thursday, December 19th, 2024
FHE adoption will be driven by collaboration, open standards, and industry-wide efforts to address privacy and security challenges, including law enforcement's embrace of encryption for national security.
As 2025 dawns, fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) is a privacy-enhancing technology (PET) on the cusp of going mainstream. FHE keeps data encrypted during computation so that it can't be read even if it's intercepted. Hardware acceleration, VC investment, and new cross-industry consortia like FHETCH have gathered strong prevailing winds behind FHE, and the next two years will see the first commercial applications. In 2025, I expect to observe three trends as FHE adoption begins in earnest.