Demonstrating Quantum Homomorphic Encryption Through Simulation

Abstract

Quantum homomorphic encryption (QHE), allows a quantum cloud server to compute on private data as uploaded by a client. We provide a proof-of-concept software simulation for QHE, according to the "EPR" scheme of Broadbent and Jeffery, for universal quantum circuits. We demonstrate the near-term viability of this scheme and provide verification that the additional cost of homomorphic circuit evaluation is minor when compared to the simulation cost of the quantum operations. Our simulation toolkit is an open-source Python implementation, that serves as a step towards further hardware applications of quantum homomorphic encryption between networked quantum devices.

6 pages, 3 figures

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