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BGV

BGV is a homomorphic encryption scheme for exact modular arithmetic on encrypted integers.

FBFenwei BianAuthorSeptember 19, 2026
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BGV is a homomorphic encryption scheme that evaluates exact modular additions and multiplications on encrypted integers. Like BFV, it is useful when the result must be exact; libraries differ in their implementation and bootstrapping support. CKKS instead supports approximate numerical computation.

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Fenwei Bian

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Fenwei Bian is a software developer in her thirties who spends her working hours in pull requests and her weekends with her hands in soil or sawdust. Years of open source on GitHub taught her that names are interfaces: a good one is clear, honest about what it does, and kind to whoever has to use it next.

She gardens because it rewards patience and punishes wishful thinking, and she does woodwork because a joint either fits or it doesn't. Both habits show up in how she writes about naming — measure twice, check the source, and don't sand over a rough spot and hope no one notices.

For Namefi she writes about how domain markets actually move, the practical trade-offs of tokenizing and flipping names, and picking a domain you'll still be glad you own in twenty years.

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