zama-ai/tfhe-rs

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

TFHE-rs is a pure Rust implementation of the TFHE fully homomorphic encryption scheme, enabling boolean and integer arithmetic over encrypted data. It provides a Rust API, C bindings, and a client-side WASM/JavaScript API, with features like programmable bootstrapping and ciphertext compression.

Use cases

• compute on encrypted data without decrypting it
• perform boolean logic on encrypted bits
• do arithmetic on encrypted integers up to 8 bits
• build privacy-preserving applications with FHE in Rust
• use homomorphic encryption from C or JavaScript via WASM
• research and experiment with TFHE programmable bootstrapping

When to choose

• you need fully homomorphic encryption for boolean or short integer computation
• you want a high-performance, production-oriented FHE library in Rust
• you need client-side encryption with a WASM/JavaScript API
• you want ciphertext and server key compression for efficient transfer

When to avoid

• you need general-purpose FHE over arbitrary data types or machine learning workloads (consider other Zama libraries like Concrete or Concrete-ML)
• you need fast computation - FHE has large performance overheads compared to plaintext
• you need a lightweight encryption scheme without homomorphic properties

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cryptography security sdk security privacy developer-tools rust cpp c wasm cross-platform homomorphic-encryption fhe tfhe encrypted-computation boolean-arithmetics integer-arithmetics cryptography

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